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My day job is engineering at one of the big tech companies whose search services most of the people I know use almost every day. In the 100+ interviews I’ve do
by tracer4201 7y ago
My day job is engineering at one of the big tech companies whose search services most of the people I know use almost every day.
In the 100+ interviews I’ve done for engineers, I’ve never cared for their portfolio. It’s hard for me to know if it really is their portfolio or if they actually wrote the code, etc.
I’m going to ask you design and coding questions.
- mieseratte 7y agoIf someone has a portfolio I will certainly ask about those projects. Gives an opportunity to demonstrate technical acumen and communication skills at the same time.
- KUcxrAVrtI 7y ago>I’m going to ask you design and coding questions. My day job is engineering in systems that kill people or cost billions of dollars if they go wrong. I'm never going to ask you to code something on the fly other than hello world, a loop to print 0..9 and maybe a recursive function to print 0..9. You can't think deeply enough about a problem in one hour, or one day. I will ask you a lot of questions about what you will do, how you will do it, and what the possible problems and mitigations are. A portfolio that you've worked on is great because I can find the worst code in it and ask why it's there, what the trade offs of putting it there were and how you would fix it if you had infinite time.