Questions tagged [interviewing]
Questions relating to interviews and the interviewing process.
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Following up after underperformance in an interview relative to knowledge
I recently had a second interview with a firm for a highly technical position. This involved deep knowledge of some concepts I got a masters degree in, and I specifically list all classes I took on my ...
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Mentioning experience of (non-malicious) bot-building in interviews?
I built a bot to reserve sports courts at my university's athletic facilities. I did it because the reservations opened during a time when I am usually asleep, and also demand is high (pretty sure ...
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Proactively telling the interviewer about other interviews
Applying and interviewing for leadership positions in Australia!
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OK, there is a Company X that I interviewed with recently and I really want to work for them. The interview was very very ...
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How to tell if a software company encourages/allows quality work, during the interview process?
The book Peopleware has this to say about quality:
... managers tend to think of quality as just another attribute of the
product, something that may be supplied in varying degrees according to
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Should I Tell a Prospective Employer I’m Looking For a 2nd Job?
I’m happy with my current job and I have no plans to leave the company I’m working for. But I’m also the sole breadwinner for my family and inflation is making it increasingly difficult to live on a ...
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If I delay the interview process with a company due to vacation, do I increase the probability that they hire someone else?
I have a vacation coming up and I am in the process of interviewing with a company. I told them that I will be going on vacation and they said that it's fine, that I can continue the interview process ...
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How can I best ensure applicants have requisite foundational knowledge?
I am in the process of hiring my first full time data scientist in an academic setting. The position is entry level, and I expect to personally provide mentorship for the skills specific to my field ...
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Looking for a job while being new in the current position
A friend of mine was hired recently by a company (a couple of weeks ago). She applied to another position recently in a different company and she will have an interview soon.
We were discussing this ...
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My interviewer stopped the interview process half way
So I applied for a job at a company and a recruiter reach out to me via email as they wanted to proceed with the interview process. The company didn't do a phone interview with me, instead they ...
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Should I remove older low level jobs/education from my CV at this point?
I am updating my CV. I am 26 and have been working full time for about 8 years now, I have some decent experience which I think looks pretty good on paper. I'm a senior developer at my current (small) ...
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Should I have said something when I realized I have a personal connection to one of the interviewers?
I just did an interview for a job I really want. Only problem is one of the interviewers was my ex's new fiancée. I was unaware until she introduced herself. She knew beforehand as she had the list of ...
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how to determine in interview if candidate will be of help with "On the side" programming projects
In my company I am a Mechanical Engineer, but I take on a lot of programming projects on the side for my department and have created several tools that have helped save us a lot of time and headaches. ...
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What question can I ask at an interview to discover if the employer is top-down and bureaucratic?
I have held five jobs in my programming career, two which I hated and three which I loved. In the three jobs I loved, our team had the freedom to make our own decisions about our work. In the two jobs ...
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How to decide on an interview process, to hire software developers?
Some parts of the interview process for software developers seem pretty clearly established. Having a fairly brief initial phone screen of some sort seems like a generally good idea, for example. ...
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Didn't receive the expected depth of feedback from company after an interview [closed]
I have applied for a software engineer position at a startup. The contact person was one of the co-founders of the company.
Over email, we initially discussed about the compensation, the project and ...
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How do you handle an overly polite candidate during the interview?
I am the hiring manager and I have the 2nd round and final interview of a candidate, who is overly polite. For every question I asked he always responded with "thank you" at the beginning ...
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Are technical interviews by the company's "expert", followed by the news of the expert leaving and his job also being available a red flag?
As described in the title,
At the last stage of an interviewing process, a technical interview for say job A was conducted by the job A's team leader and a company's employee introduced as an expert ...
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Should I disclose the reason I quit my PhD program during job interviews in the private sector?
Summary: I quit my PhD program due to a medical and financial reason. Now, I apply for jobs in the private sector, and will have interviews soon. Should I disclose the detailed reasons I quit my PhD ...
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How to express to potential employers that a company I own will not take any of my time?
I have spent the last 6 months building out a crypto currency mining operation that is now operating hands off. I look at statistics at the end of the day and don't have to spend any time running the ...
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"thank you" in an e-mail with additional doc
HR asked me to send an additional doc before the second meeting with a technical team.
Should I write something like:
"I am looking forward to my next interview"
Would you suggest adding ...
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Why don't companies put the interview process on the job ad?
It recently occurred to me that a rough overview of a company's hiring process can reveal some interesting information to a potential employee about what kinds of thing they value in an employee. ...
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Renege a SE offer close to the start date
I got an offer from Amazon for a new grad SE role in Vancouver. I accepted the offer at the beginning of May. Now, I am almost done with the onboarding process. Amazon has completed my background ...
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Owning the "double-dipping" scenario
I've been working two remote Java developer jobs for a few years and I'm going to seek future employment in the next year or so.
I've seen objections to this scenario and approach, usually in the form ...
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Do companies accept employees who have been banned from the Google Play Console? [closed]
I was banned from Google Play Console several years ago. Now I am afraid that companies making mobile apps will reject me because I have been banned so their company account may be banned too as an ...
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Answering How can we support you
Nowadays many job applications ask questions as
We are actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so
want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.
Please let us ...
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Is it unprofessional to order food after an interview?
I'm applying for a restaurant that also is my go to breakfast spot. The interview is early in the morning and I was thinking of knocking out 2 birds with one stone and ordering a bite to eat after the ...
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Onboarding HQ requires 1 week to stay in an expensive city
Got a new Job as manager in a startup company. They invited me to do the onboard training in their HQ which is in Paris. I have to stay for 7 working days.
Should I expect them to give me extra money ...
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When interviewing, how should you to respond to questions about things you are not experienced with?
If you're asked during an interview about something you do not have experience with, how do you respond? For example, what if you have no experience in Agile Development and are asked, "Have you ...
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Interviewing for one role, and interviewer makes an offhand comment that I may want to consider another role. How to respond?
I'm interviewing for a senior level support escalations role at a social media company, and the interview went well. I observed that the interviewer seemed excited about my background and my answers ...
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How many days should I give a candidate for a take-home iOS test? [closed]
I'm asking the candidate to rearrange the flow of a simple social media application.
Instead of having to log in/register to access the app, users land into the app directly and only have to log in/...
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What kind of questions can be asked for a Embedded Software Engineering job interview? [closed]
Firstly, I am a newbie on this site. If there is anything wrong with my post I would appreciate any feedback. I have looked at previous questions, but I could not see a related one.
I just graduated ...
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Asking recruiter about job after offer is made?
I applied for a position at CompanyX and received an offer, which I’m still evaluating.
While searching, I found about other jobs at CompanyX, which seem very interesting.
Is it wrong to ask the ...
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How to ask about total compensation alignment before final interview round
I have just been offered a half-day final round for a job that I'm quite interested in taking. However, in order to not waste my time or theirs, I want to make sure we are aligned on compensation ...
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After 3 interviews invited for an interview months from now [closed]
I had virtual interview rounds first with recruiter, then manager, then company head officials and HR. The job is for a new venue opening months from now and they asked this time for an in person ...
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How do I talk about a "failed" internship during interviews for a SWE role?
As a recent grad I accepted an internship opportunity with a household name major tech company. The program had little to no training or ramp up period, instead I was placed on an active team and ...
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Slow thinking tasks in job interviews
In his book "Thinking fast and slow", Daniel Kahneman describes a series of research tasks used for measuring slow thinking. One example is the "add one" task, where a participant ...
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How to handle a long deliberate delay of a second job interview?
If a company confirms that you have entered the second interview soon after the initial interview, but refuses to give you a confirmed date & time for the next interview, which is delayed for a ...
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Is it okay if the interviewer make fun of my experience before graduation?
I live in a Southeast Asian country and have just graduated from college and have some internship experience during my study, and a full-time job as a Data Engineer (DE) after that. The interview is ...
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Found out during interview that employer is doing it wrong, how to proceed?
Since I work in a technical area, much of my interviews discuss how the team works, what tools and techniques they are using, and what their general philosophy is like (eg. many tools that each do one ...
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How to answer an interview question about productivity and disagreeing with your manager?
If the hiring manager asked this question during an interview "If there is something that would improve your productivity, but your manager disagrees with it, should you still do it?"
I ...
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Offered a great job, but I'm in the interview process of my dream job at Google?
I currently work as a fullstack software developer and I just got offered a very generous job that's about 2x my current pay at a startup company. In addition, my current job has no holiday or ...
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Interview process with aspergers
I have Asperger's and have major issues passing job interviews. In the past I have had a large number of job interviews (haven't kept count but probably somewhere between 60 and 100) and failed all ...
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Company offering me the same job again just 10 days after rejecting me in final VP round [closed]
I interviewed with a software company 10 days ago. It is not a very big company and has around 40-50 employees. There were 3 rounds, out of which 2 were technical and last one was a 15 minute chat ...
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What is a high percentage way to prepare for a 30 minute data structures and algorithms interview at a startup?
The first half of the one hour interview will be a data structures / algorithms type problem and second half will be debugging a real problem in an iOS codebase. Since my comfort zone is with the ...
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How to approach in an interview a lower salary than the posted salary ranges
I was contacted recently by a recruiter. They were interested by my CV and my previous experience (not a lot, but they mentioned they liked the experience, not that they thought it was little). I ...
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Nepotism has become the order of the day at my job, how do I move forward in my career? [duplicate]
I have been working for a startup for over six months now and some drama occurred where they let go of a backend engineer that the tech lead, myself and others were warning was not on the up and up.
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I am looking for a job as a junior software developer. What technical questions should I ask during the interview?
I am looking for a job as a junior software developer (preferably backend in Java or C#). During interviews, what are some good technical questions I can ask potential employers? I don't want to look ...
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How to list 2-3 dates and time ranges that you could do an interview [closed]
How to list dates and time ranges to do interviews
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SWE achievements
I have heard about Google's XYZ résumé formula but I struggle to describe my experience with it.
Accomplished [X] as measured by [Y], by doing [Z].
The hardest part is ...as measured by Y... but ...
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I don't code as a hobby. What should I answer when asked about my GitHub?
While I've done coding in the past as a hobby, I don't do it anymore and my current employer uses a private local GitLab repository, so my GitHub wall is all white squares and the code that is in ...
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