I spent the last 3 to 4 months job searching on top of all of my other responsibilities such as school, family and even squeezing in a few of my hobbies from time to time. Since I had a previous career as a project manager I’ve had a lot of experience preparing and interviewing for that field and I have been surprised at how different the process feels for CS jobs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The biggest difference is the technical portion of interviews for CS positions. There are “technical” questions in project management interviews, but they can all mostly be explained with a few PM strategies and soft skills. It would be a full-day process to really dive into an example project and convey how you would tackle a project and most companies (and interviewers) won’t commit that much time for an interview. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Developer interviews will have a technical portion that can showcase a person’s skills or lack thereof. Whether a code walkthrough or an actual coding problem. I’ve found myself preparing for the technical portions of interviews to the exclusion of soft skills\/culture fit, mostly because I am very confident in those pieces of interviews. I both really enjoy and am very frustrated with these technical tests. I enjoy them because it does highlight my skills and the preparation has undoubtedly made me a better programmer. But I am extremely frustrated with them as well because software development\/CS is such a large field that it is impossible to be prepared for all possible questions. Multiple times I have been stumped by questions in interviews that I had no idea about, or it was something that I had learned six months to a year before and subsequently forgotten the details of. Speaking with other students, developers and professionals I know that I am not the only one frustrated with the process and that there is a general consensus that technical interviews are an unwanted, but necessary part of the interview for most companies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve accepted a job offer, but the frustration of interviewing lingers with me because I know that there is a better way to conduct them, but I don’t know what it is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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