[MrWiffles]

One thing I’m having trouble with is anticipating the questions themselves. Not the technology specific ones, but also the generic stuff and the things that are still generic (tell me about yourself) but also more relevant to our industry and software eng roles. Any resources you could suggest that have worked well for you or anyone you know?

[muzani]

If you interview often enough, you'll see a similar pattern. Here's my list:

"What's your product development attitude?"

"How did you know about this position?"

"How did you learn about Technology X?"

"Tell me about your latest role"

"Why are you switching jobs?"

"What would you change at current role?"

"Tell me about another project, it can be a side project."

"What do you plan on being in 5 years?"

"Why aren't you at senior/manager level yet?"

"I see you did tech X here, and then Y. Why the career shift?"

"What excites you?" (This is a surprisingly common question that throws me off. The first one I got it, I answered "productivity". Which was true, but it sounded like a bullshit answer and lost me that interview. I've learned to talk about AI or cooking or exponential growth and relate that to incremental games. This question is often a bullshit detector)

"What advice would you have for younger you?"

"What is something you've had trouble with recently?"

"How would you change that?"

"What's the worst mistake you've ever made?"

"Why haven't you joined FAANG?"

"Tell me how did you handle disagreements at work"

"What's your growth plan? What do you want?"

"What's your favourite design pattern?"

"How do you manage tech debt?"

[klenwell]

It's the "What's your greatest weakness?" type of questions that always throw me. Some variations include:

- What's something your not good at?

- What's the biggest mistake you've ever made on the job?

- Describe a time you disagreed with a colleague. How did you resolve it?

- Tell us about a time you received some negative feedback from a manager and how you handled it.

For these types of questions, it has definitely helped me to have rehearsed a little ahead of time.

[Aeolun]

> - Describe a time you disagreed with a colleague. How did you resolve it? - Tell us about a time you received some negative feedback from a manager and how you handled it.

These questions are incredibly annoying when asked.

For one thing I’ve literally never received negative feedback from my manager, but nobody believes that when you tell them, so you have to come up with something absolutely trivial, and somehow blow that up into ‘negative feedback’, then think of a way you dealt with it other than ‘I didn’t do it again’, because that isn’t what they want to hear.

The times I disagree with a colleague are not situations we ‘resolve’, it’s something my manager ultimately decides. I don’t know what kind of answer they’re fishing for here. At least ‘we talk about it, and then either not disagree anymore, or escalate it’ does not seem to make anyone happy.

[jacobr1]

There are tons of blogs out there with example interview questions. If you review a few dozen, you start to pick up some commonalities.

Another approach that has worked for in the past is a mock interview. Ask a fried or college to interview you and give some feedback.

Look at job descriptions for role you are interested in. For each bullet point, you should able able to speak to why you are qualified, probably via an anecdote of a prior experience.