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This is excellent advice specifically because it's not about "prepping for interviews"; honing these skills simply makes you more valuable to any company, and i
by jtheory 11y ago
This is excellent advice specifically because it's not about "prepping for interviews"; honing these skills simply makes you more valuable to any company, and it's an aspect of your capabilities that you can show off in a decent interview process... so take advantage of that.
- joezydeco 11y agoJust to add to my comment above, I recently did a round of hiring for a new embedded engineer. I had a handful make it to the in-person interviews. When asked about previous projects, almost every single one waved their hands and tried to explain how they glued widget A to framework B and <magic> got product C. Exactly one candidate brought materials to show things he had worked on and how the skills he used in those projects applied to the work we were doing. You could see eyes light up when he was asked "so, tell us about <project z>" and he smoothly pulled out some pages to show. He blew everyone else away and got the offer.
- collyw 11y agoDid you ask him to bring stuff in advance?
- joezydeco 11y agoNope. And I always carry materials on my interviews even if I'm not asked to. It's not much more work to carry a small 3-ring binder along with the notepad and resume folder I typically carry to an interview. (Protip: always carry extra copies of your resume to interviews. There's always someone that is missing theirs and it's nice when you hand them an extra copy)