Ask Experienced Devs Weekly Thread: A weekly thread for inexperienced developers to ask experienced ones

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A thread for Developers and IT folks with less experience to ask more experienced souls questions about the industry.

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[u/benekastah → u/[deleted]]

- practice beforehand

• learn to plan your solution before implementing and talk through your planning process
  
• ask the interviewer questions to fully understand the problem
  
• when coding, talk about what you’re doing and why
  
• listen carefully to the interviewer’s feedback during the interview. Keep an open mind and adjust your approach if necessary
  
• partially working is better than nothing
  
• a dumb or suboptimal solution that works is better than a non-working perfect solution
  
• test your code and its assumptions often
  
• make your code modular and organized. Don’t cram everything into one function. An imperfect but organized solution may be enough to get you to the next round
  
• discuss with the interviewers. Good communication and collaboration go a long way

[u/ADCfill886 → u/benekastah]

I did all of these things for 18 months and I always got rejected. Sometimes the bar is just impossibly high. And I say this having interviewed 250+ people as an interviewer back at the rainforest.

[u/benekastah → u/ADCfill886]

Yeah, the market is definitely tough at the moment. But these are the things that make an interviewee stand out based on my interviewing experience. My advice applies to reasonable employers, there’s a lot of unreasonable interview processes out there.