> "the team I'm working with doesn't have too much challenging work" I'd suggest making that part of your sales pitch: "I'm applying to your job because I'm ea

> "the team I'm working with doesn't have too much challenging work" I'd suggest making that part of your sales pitch: "I'm applying to your job because I'm eager to learn but there weren't a lot of growth opportunities at my old job for me. Here are some of the things I tried do to grow: ..." You can attempt to point your interpreter side project but you'd better be prepared to talk about it in deep detail. I'd also suggest asking your management about whether training budget is available and, if so, asking to use it to learn something work related. > "How do you seek out challenging work in your existing org?" I don't really have any advice to provide for that; the problem in the places where I've worked tends to be avoiding being drowned in challenging work. That being said, surely there's some form of automation, security evaluation, code analysis or some other common industry tooling or practice that your organization could be using but isn't? I've yet to meet a software team that was doing everything optimally.