Tech job interview support group (JS Party #239)
from JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development
Struggling through the tech job interview process? We feel you! On this episode, Amal, Nick & Amelia get together to discuss the various ways the interview process disappoints, share their own interview stories, and suggest ways we can improve the process for everyone.
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- 0:00 Opener
- 0:57 Sponsor: Sentry
- 1:51 Intro
- 2:35 Hello, friends!
- 3:28 Defining the problem
- 8:41 99 problems
- 17:59 Tooling might help
- 19:41 Sponsor: Vercel
- 22:59 Amelia's first interview
- 24:57 A big interview smell
- 26:21 Two-way streets
- 28:10 Nick's "not fun" experience
- 31:01 Interview vs job mismatch
- 35:52 Amal's recent job hunt
- 41:38 Sponsor: Fly.io
- 43:32 Sponsor: Hasura
- 45:33 Nick the interviewER
- 50:51 Amelia the interviewER
- 52:36 PR review as a tool
- 57:10 Nick on empathy
- 59:30 Amelia on taking it slow
- 1:00:27 Amal on gatekeeping
- 1:02:04 Amal on humanity
- 1:02:54 Goodbye!
- 1:03:21 Outro
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This episode was published on August 19, 2022.
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