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by homie
1591 days ago
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Absolutely agree. I’ve found that behavioral interviews are harder than technical interviews at this point. If you don’t have the set of experiences they’re looking for then it’s game over. This can be ameliorated slightly if the interviewer is willing to accept a hypothetical, but this has rarely been the case for me recently. |
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“Tell me about the last time you had make your team work late for a deadline.”
“I don’t. It’s been my experience as both an IC and a a manager that crunches just burn people out, and you end up getting less quality work out of them. It’s much better to communicate early and either adjust deadlines or deliverables.”
“What if you can’t?”
“Unless there is an external forcing function on the company, everything should be negotiable. Does this happen a lot here?”
“One or twice a year.”
“Huh. It’s only happened to me once in ten years, and that was due to a multimillion dollar contract deadline. If it happens regularly here, then the company should fire the directors of engineering for gross incompetence. They can’t project manage.”
Needless to say, I didn’t get the job, but at that point, why would I have wanted it?