Tech job interview support group

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Struggling through the tech job interview process? We feel you! On this episode, Amal, Nick & Amelia get together to discuss the various ways the interview process disappoints, share their own interview stories, and suggest ways we can improve the process for everyone.

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Featuring:

• Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub
• Nick Nisi – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Amelia Wattenberger – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• 🎧 JS Party #238: Build faster websites with Astro 1.0
• 🎧 The Changelog #479: Principles for hiring engineers

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Timestamps:

(00:00) - Opener
(00:57) - Sponsor: Sentry
(01:51) - Intro
(02:35) - Hello, friends!
(03:28) - Defining the problem
(08:41) - 99 problems
(17:59) - Tooling might help
(19:41) - Sponsor: Vercel
(22:59) - Amelia's first interview
(24:57) - A big interview smell
(26:21) - Two-way streets
(28:10) - Nick's "not fun" experience
(31:01) - Interview vs job mismatch
(35:52) - Amal's recent job hunt
(41:38) - Sponsor: Fly.io
(43:32) - Sponsor: Hasura
(45:33) - Nick the interviewER
(50:51) - Amelia the interviewER
(52:36) - PR review as a tool
(57:10) - Nick on empathy
(59:30) - Amelia on taking it slow
(1:00:27) - Amal on gatekeeping
(1:02:04) - Amal on humanity
(1:02:54) - Goodbye!
(1:03:21) - Outro