Engineering interview tips & tricks (Go Time #248)
In this episode, we will be exploring interviewing as a Software Engineer. Tips, tricks, and gotchas, as well as potentially some interviewing horror stories and red flags to avoid at all costs. We’re joined by Emma Draper, Engineering Manager at the New York Times based in Arizona, and Kate Jonas, goes by Jonas, Technical Enablement Manager at Datadog based in Denver.
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- 0:00 Opener
- 0:46 Sponsor: Square
- 1:30 Intro
- 2:14 Welcoming Emma & Jonas
- 3:59 Typical engineering interviews
- 7:31 Different styles for different orgs
- 11:08 Thoughts on automation
- 15:16 Process differences depending on level
- 20:25 Sponsor: FireHydrant
- 22:09 Interviewing at startups
- 24:00 Job search turnaround times
- 27:40 Take home turnaround times
- 33:56 Preparing for interviews
- 40:25 How to talk about yourself
- 46:34 Sponsor: Chronosphere
- 48:23 Green flags & red flags
- 55:21 Unpopular Opinions!
- 56:23 Emma's unpop
- 57:39 Jonas' unpop
- 58:55 Wrapping up
- 59:17 Outro
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