The React Show Alternatives to the Software Interview / Getting a React Job
Dec 17, 2021
01:35:59
Want to get a job as a React developer? What’s the best way to go about it? In this episode we discuss different paths to becoming a React developer and which one might be the best for you.
Links
- Companion YouTube Video: Easiest Way to get a Software Job
- Study: Does Stress Impact Technical Interview Performance?
Show Notes
- Overview
- Thomas Experience
- CS degree, joke in a different way
- ran the gauntlet
- Austin Experience
- State of Software Interviewing
- Well known to be very broken
- Does not accurately gauge ability to do job
- One study found interviewers are primarily judging level of anxiety
- Obviously data-structures & algorithms are irrelevant to nearly all programming jobs (especially React)
- Blame Google
- One time Yelp was asking me about bits and bytes for a JS job
- Requires studying for weeks on stuff you don’t need to know even if you’re senior level
- Interviewing environment, like whiteboard, way different than real life
- Some people are great at this
- Why does this happen?
- High-risk for hiring company
- Very conservative decision making
- Many candidates, trying to filter without investing in more personnel
- Getting paid to interview
- How to gauge someone’s ability to do the job?
- Best way: see them do the job
- Contracting/Consulting
- Lower-risk for hiring company
- Generally leads to employment offers
- Much better gauge of how well you can actually do the job
- Generally doesn’t involve so much ds&a
- Either way, best thing to do is build
- Summary