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I’m in the same boat, but fortunately have a job right now. I’m not sure what I’ll do after this current one. Seems like the interview pipeline is geared towar

I’m in the same boat, but fortunately have a job right now. I’m not sure what I’ll do after this current one. Seems like the interview pipeline is geared towards new grads and junior engineers and penalize senior and staff. At what point do I stop having to do these silly coding interviews?! At what point does my resume and 20 yrs of experience speak for itself? So called senior/staff interview loops are a joke with toy system design questions. What do you really learn asking “design twitter” 100 times? The only answer I can come up with is networking. Basically, don’t bother interviewing. 4 of my last 5 jobs were via networking—no interviews.

silvercymbals 1y ago
Good luck friend :)
neilv 1y ago
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- silvercymbals 1y ago
  this has been precisely my experience frankly, if an offer presented itself for $80k a year I'd take it (it's embarrassing but that's just where I am at the moment)
rozap 1y ago
What? I see the opposite. A junior engineer is a tough sell right now. If I'm going to hand hold someone through spewing out some typescript, claude does it for cheaper and can type faster. I know this is shitty, and it feels bad because senior people mentored me back in the day, but for smaller companies, the only thing in the end is survival of the business. The time horizon isn't long enough to think about growing engineers. Again, very bleak, but it is what it is. Agree with your points on networking being the only way. Interviewing is super broken right now.
- jinushaun 1y ago
  No, I mean the interview loops themselves are still geared towards data structure and algorithm questions even at a senior/staff level. Which if you’re a staff eng dealing with quarter to year long projects, you’re not traversing binary trees. My main point is that I would NOT be shocked if VP/CTO interviews still asked candidates to code on the whiteboard.

silvercymbals 1y ago

Good luck friend :)

neilv 1y ago

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silvercymbals 1y ago
this has been precisely my experience frankly, if an offer presented itself for $80k a year I'd take it (it's embarrassing but that's just where I am at the moment)

rozap 1y ago

What? I see the opposite. A junior engineer is a tough sell right now. If I'm going to hand hold someone through spewing out some typescript, claude does it for cheaper and can type faster. I know this is shitty, and it feels bad because senior people mentored me back in the day, but for smaller companies, the only thing in the end is survival of the business. The time horizon isn't long enough to think about growing engineers. Again, very bleak, but it is what it is. Agree with your points on networking being the only way. Interviewing is super broken right now.

jinushaun 1y ago
No, I mean the interview loops themselves are still geared towards data structure and algorithm questions even at a senior/staff level. Which if you’re a staff eng dealing with quarter to year long projects, you’re not traversing binary trees. My main point is that I would NOT be shocked if VP/CTO interviews still asked candidates to code on the whiteboard.