Where are you having troubles with the interview process?
Getting past the initial resume screen? Passing the technical phone screen? Passing the onsite?
Where are you located? Where do you want to work?
Getting past the initial resume screen? Passing the technical phone screen? Passing the onsite?
Where are you located? Where do you want to work?
It's random. I pass resume screens, and I fail them. I'm just going to talk about phone screens for now. On-sites are an entirely different story, where a lot of them have been tech trivia or just entirely behavorial.
============== PHONE SCREENS ============== Random unknown, non-tech company -- easily pass.
Jet -- I passed. Easily. Because of my connections. I failed the 2nd phone screen when they saw I lacked professional experience.
Walmart Technology -- failed within 10 minutes. I was referred to it by an HN user, who said they were looking for entry people with no tech requirements. The recruiter randomly called me. She saw I had no experience with Java frameworks (I use mainly C# for projects). She couldn't read the between the lines, so I was rejected.
Wayfair Labs -- failed within 10 minutes. No explanation given. The recruiter didn't even allow me to ask any questions.
Quick Loans -- passed phone screen, but the tech team wasn't interested in me.
I rarely get tech phone screens. I did get one last week, but I have no idea how it went. It involved general questions about how HTML, CSS, JavaScript, frameworks and my projects worked.
"Where are you located? Where do you want to work?"
Like I said, I'm located right by NYC. I want to work anywhere with some sort of public transportation (even if I can only rely on a bicycle), because I have permanent blindness in my left eye (no 3D vision, and get nauseous in cars).
That might be something to note. If you're looking at startup, C# is not a popular language. Lots of businesses talk about hiring engineers language agnostic, but how many really mean it? You can make yourself more competitive by already having experience in Java, Node, or whatever and being able to show you understand the nuances.