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Would you like the job to be a painful surprise? I've had nice cushy dev roles where I had all the time I wanted and other support-adjacent roles where I felt
by LawTalkingGuy 4y ago
Would you like the job to be a painful surprise?
I've had nice cushy dev roles where I had all the time I wanted and other support-adjacent roles where I felt like I was working surrounded by screaming toddlers - expected to sit on an incident response bridge while diagnosing and fixing things.
I'm glad they told me what the role was like before I took it. The interview was friendly and casual, but involved a few people asking me to diagnose something and just cutting off "failed" paths and giving me the next bit of info, asking what that would imply and what we should test, to estimate how long it would take. If they'd de-stressed the interview the people they hired probably wouldn't be capable of or interested in the position. If they'd crumpled paper it would have helped by mimicking all the background noise from thirty unmuted phone calls.
I hear these roles often involve coding in a boardroom meeting with a few quants and a few engineers, going back and forth with the model and performance issues. If this was done by email it could take weeks and the opportunity could be gone. If you aren't able to keep hacking at your task while the other handful of people are enthusiastically discussing another then you aren't going to be able to help the team.