urban fog
In interview, how can we add more complexities to make our role look more challenging
Here's what i say typically - I've been involved rewriting legacy backend services, DB migrations with setting up k8s infra for deployment
Im looking for some examples how to tell compelling stories
unborn kiln
That is an overview of what you do, but what are the specific, short situations that come to mind?
magic yew
for a behavioral interview or just in general?
if it’s for a behavioral, go through the top 25-50 questions, and write down your answer for each of them. Then go back through them and try to improve the answer
might take awhile tho, just thought of it off the top of my head
manic axle
there's the whole STAR method
but i think in general it's like
you probably don't have an issue doing this with something you're interested in and/or when talking to a close friend right
urban fog
Only STAR wont help, it should have good base as well
urban fog
That is an overview of what you do, but what are the specific, short situations ...
Time constraint, lack of automated dev workflow, legacy codebase without testing
unborn kiln
More specific, any day when something different happened
urban fog
different like? production issue? incidents?
unborn kiln
sure, whatever comes to mind
unborn kiln
Time constraint, lack of automated dev workflow, legacy codebase without testing
The point about STAR is that you need something that you did and that had a visible result. These are just the overall situation you were in, but what did you do about it
urban fog
hmm ill think about it
Lets say i found that X Database enterprise is costing 200k annually and migrated to DB Y which had inhouse support so I need to redesign models/schemas and migrate
this led to saving cost 200k which is result
oblique kettle
That's a great result. It sounds you took the initiative as well. What sort of communication and coordination was required to make that change? Did you have to convince anyone?
tepid whale