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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by i_am_a_cardboard_box@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

How do you guys do it? I just had my first encounter yesterday for a data engineering job and I sincerely fucked up. My mind went completely blank, I was thinking along all the wrong lines and I think I didn't even correctly understand the question, because there were all these words that I've never heard of.

How do you even prepare for something like that?

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[-] fixmycode@feddit.cl 1 points 10 months ago

I agree with every advice given here, I'd just add that you need to be proactive: in some interviews you'll be given a very lax list of requirements and that means that your capacity for risk assessment is being tested, you need to ask questions so that those very lax requirements slowly become very specific requirements. Risk assessment also play a part when you're determining scaling, security, and deployment concerns, and you win a lot of points by at least mention them, that's what is expected of you as an engineer with experience. Maybe you're interviewing for a junior position and the interviewer will say "don't worry about that for now", but what if he's expecting you to worry and you didn't?

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