How do you all do it? I see people doing rounds with MANGA and getting offers everywhere.
Is it the YOE? Is it the portfolio? I can't imagine how you would have a case study for relevant to every single position you applied for... Unless it's just interviewing skill.
I only manage to get 1-2 offers every round after interviewing at least 5-10 companies.
Any pointers appreciated fam.
Already getting rejected from all the manager-portfolio review stages.
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However, in order to be a truly exceptional and compelling candidate, you need a high degree of self awareness. Specifically, you need to know what you bring to the table, and what you are looking for in a company. You are interviewing the company just as much as they are interviewing you. It’s a two way street to finding mutual fit.
- Interview practice and self-awareness. Earlier on in my career, I didn’t think I had enough self awareness of my work and how I come across during interviews, and I found that the more I interviewed, the better my portfolio presentation got. I would update my presentation based off feedback and I’d anticipate questions people would ask, so I would preemptively address it. Interviewing is a skill, and knowing how you’re being perceived is half of it.
- Good craft and product thinking. Good visual design, interaction design, product sense, and clearly defining problems comes with years of experience and design practice. What looks like brilliant design is often a result of brute forcing and exploring every option under the sun. If you have literally tried every possible variation, you will have come across the best solution. As you get more senior, you begin to make decisions more automatically, and every great designer has walked the path of brute force. There is no shortcut to honing your craft besides spending countless hours of doing the work. How good your work product will always be limited by your good your eye is, and your critical discernment of the strengths and weaknesses of a design.
- Good communication and storytelling. When you’re presenting work to a new audience, you use the same skills in designing products to imagining how other people will think and feel when they encounter the design work. Think deeply about hooks to keep their interest, consider what’s critical to convey upfront and what details can be saved for later, use simple language, and use visuals or animations to convey the outcome. Clear, succinct, and compelling communication is a key skill for any designer.
2. Have a great portfolio that gets attention. Treat it as your own product and make it look good.
3. Have people skills.
4. Be good at talking about product and practice using things like like the “Product Design Exercises” book.