Reddit Experience · Dec 2020

Bombing interviews with experience sucks even more

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Interview Experience

I just finished an interview, and needless to say I bombed it. I felt awful afterwards, even as someone who has 3+years of experience, a solid portfolio and even open source contributions. I'm here ju

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I just finished an interview, and needless to say I bombed it. I felt awful afterwards, even as someone who has 3+years of experience, a solid portfolio and even open source contributions. I'm here justing wanting to vent and complain about how much I hate questions like "Tell me about a time where you had an unpopular idea but it was the right idea and you had to push really hard for it". Couldn't help but stumble and struggle trying to say something semi-related that wasn't cringey af. Then from there, he goes and asks something super specific like what is a controlled component or uncontrolled component in react. Granted I have a react on my resume, but it is not like I have every terminology or reference memorized. Like ask me how I improved our lighthouse performance score of this React app instead. Sigh I guess I need to pratice making up stupid stories for these general cringey behavioral questions and memorizing a crap ton of definitons. I'd honestly rather do a leetcode hard. Atleast I currently have a job, although one that I don't like but I'm not stupid enough to quit first...

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