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> I've been noticing this too. Everyone wants to hire an ambitious go-getter who aspires to become Top Hotdog Ultra Tech Lead or CEO someday. Everybody wants t

> I've been noticing this too. Everyone wants to hire an ambitious go-getter who aspires to become Top Hotdog Ultra Tech Lead or CEO someday. Everybody wants to hire that one person that's crazy about software engineering and will transfer the way team works and tremendously improve product's architecture. While I've worked with such people, they're rare, so most companies settle for people who can just competently deliver without being a crazy trailblazer. What is important is following the latest popular technology trends though - there's never enough people on the market who know these, so if you know them, you're good. Also probably leetcode/whiteboarding if you're in the US, but I can't speak much to that cause I'm in Europe and it's rarely practiced here.

siquick 6y ago
What is the general interview process in Europe?
- killtimeatwork 6y ago
  In my experience, for seniors it's a conversation about past experience, deep dive on a selected project/technical problem of candidate's choosing, and sometimes some quizzing on the technologies the candidate claims to particularly experienced in, that are of interest for the company. For juniors, it's quite often coding something very simple (non-algorithmic, no gotchas) in an IDE to verify if the candidate really has experience with the stack they claim to have. I've been interviewed in dozens of places and the only leetcoding/whiteboarding I've experienced was in American corps (Google, Palantir), in Sony games division (which from what I've heard is arguably an American company) and in one wannabe-cool startup in London that paid shit anyway. Nobody I know in Europe grinds algorithms in their free time...
- botten 6y ago
  Depends on the company (and country). At least here in Stockholm (SE) take home coding assignments and/or whiteboard problem solving seems pretty common for both junior and senior positions.

siquick 6y ago

What is the general interview process in Europe?

killtimeatwork 6y ago
In my experience, for seniors it's a conversation about past experience, deep dive on a selected project/technical problem of candidate's choosing, and sometimes some quizzing on the technologies the candidate claims to particularly experienced in, that are of interest for the company. For juniors, it's quite often coding something very simple (non-algorithmic, no gotchas) in an IDE to verify if the candidate really has experience with the stack they claim to have. I've been interviewed in dozens of places and the only leetcoding/whiteboarding I've experienced was in American corps (Google, Palantir), in Sony games division (which from what I've heard is arguably an American company) and in one wannabe-cool startup in London that paid shit anyway. Nobody I know in Europe grinds algorithms in their free time...
botten 6y ago
Depends on the company (and country). At least here in Stockholm (SE) take home coding assignments and/or whiteboard problem solving seems pretty common for both junior and senior positions.