Reddit Experience · Sep 2025

Silly I am during interviews

SWE System Design Principal
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Interview Experience

It was a consultant software job interview in the office since I passed the online. Discussed the technical topics with manager and a kind of principal engineer. They told the director to come. During

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It was a consultant software job interview in the office since I passed the online. Discussed the technical topics with manager and a kind of principal engineer. They told the director to come. During the conversation with director she asked me if I am also writing documents for the codes I am improving. Somehow I was too relax, I told her yes I am writing and keep updating since after some time I also don’t get what I wrote there. Also mentioned I am also drawing kind of diagrams to make it better. Then I told I used to be painter including charcoal and oil painting and showed my works from my Facebook account :) Funny part is before interview outsider recruiter told me that do not mention anything like architecture or system design anything else than coding, just say I am hands on coding nothing else

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System Design