From the course: Tech Career Skills: Searching, Interviewing, and Landing a Job
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Getting too tactical in a tech interview
From the course: Tech Career Skills: Searching, Interviewing, and Landing a Job
Getting too tactical in a tech interview
- What if you try to do the right thing and it's still backfires? Engineers are often so excited to get into the problem solving that they forget to listen. In the next scene Amos is so eager to talk, that he forgets to listen and read the room. - So, tell me about your favorite engineering project. - Okay, well I changed our architecture to go from run where we had an Apache reverse proxy and a Java application. - Okay. - Then I built an infrastructure behind a load balancer, a router, a central API, connected to several microservices. - Okay, so - And then we had to work, with having service tokens so that our caches were not getting overloaded. - Okay, so, let me stop you there. Can you tell me maybe what, the problem was you were trying to solve? Let's set some context for the before and after, the choices and the trade offs. Let's walk through this instead of sprint, yeah? - Let me just take a step back okay. - Now the candidate was trying to describe a very interesting problem…
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