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[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 0 points 1 week ago

Resumes don't mean shit. Tech interviews are hard. If you lie, you probably won't make it to the first whiteboard interview

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

And if you're skilled, you don't really need "experience." Just don't lie about your skills.

How is the whiteboard interview going to uncover the fact that you only have two years of experience instead of five?

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago

If you're skilled, then you have experience. That's the point.

Experience doesn't mean you need to have had a paid job. Decide to make a game in Java? You'll have a lot of experience. Publish it on GitHub, and that's what your interviewer is looking for

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And there's no way for the interviewer to know how many years of experience that game actually represents. If it's four instead of five, they'll never know. That's the trick.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You'd fail before the whiteboard interview. Its easy to detect people with little experience

I never ask how much experience someone has in an interview. I throw a hard problem at them and watch them work

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nope. The non-technical phone interview can be bullshitted, the technical phone interview can be passed with enough skill, and by the time they get to you then you aren't even checking for experience.

There are loads of people that get through this process by lying about their years of experience. You have confirmation bias.

The only thing experience is good for is getting better at lying on resumes and lying in interviews. It's a screening process to filter out people who don't know how the sausage is made.

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