The Tech Interview Guide Podcast

Interviewing often feels like everyone wasting each other’s time. What should I do?

One of my Twitch followers is happy at their current job, but continues to interview at various companies to keep their skills sharp. Their observation was that interviewing feels like an enormous waste of everyone's time, and asked my opinion as a hiring manager.
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Imposter Syndrome vs Over-confidence in interviews and the tech industry

Will you ever, truly feel ready for a job interview? Does practice really make you "perfect" at interviewing? What should you do when confidence is holding you back from even applying, much less scheduling that interview?

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Can you negotiate on a job offer if you only have 1 year of professional experience?

Understanding how and when to negotiate is crucial whether you're new in the industry or if you've been around a long time. The starting point is knowing your value on the market and advocating for yourself why you're worth that much money.
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What’s the cost of retention versus hiring new staff, and what’s my outlook on tech hiring?

Discussing tech industry layoffs, changing jobs, "brain-drain", and more

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What would your references say about you?

This is a tricky question to answer, because we won't always have all of the context of someone else's perspective.

Are there tech jobs that don‘t need as much preparation for an interview?

I believe you should always prepare to the best of your ability, because you should practice answers to behavioral and technical questions.

How many jobs should you apply to at the same time?

The short answer is "as many as you can handle", and in this episode I discuss what that means for you as an individual.

Do you prefer working on a team, or by yourself?

You should answer this question based on what you know about the company's values, but you also need to be genuine about your work discipline.

How will you speak about your education, training, and project work, in an interview?

what are the best ways to prepare to answer technical questions in the interview about your training and project work?

How will you answer questions outside of your skill level?

Sometimes in a tech interview, you'll get asked questions way outside your level of experience. Are those questions fair? What should you do to answer them?