Wondering if the interviews would still be done regardless of number of years of experience for a tech role? Or does it depend on what type of role you are interviewing for? Using general levels, say someone interviewing for Apple for a position requiring 1-5 years of exp. vs one that requires 5-10 or 10-15+ ? How does the process and contents of interview questions change when interviewing for head/lead of software team etc. Please share your thoughts about his bits done at your employers. About me: 20 years in software dev., last 5 years or so in senior lead/software dev head(.Net, java and DB teams. Total head count 15). Salary: 125k in Boston. Planning to move to Dallas suburbs ( Plano or Frisco) in a couple months.
From what I've seen and heard of folks interviewing for CxO position at my current company...the interview is more about your leadership experience...what products and teams you led and why you want to work for company...for the latter you need to have extensive knowledge of the company and their product/service and need to ask questions that'll show your experience... it's less of a interview and more of a conversation...
I could handle those without prep since they are mostly talking with confidence and have social intelligence to hold interviewer's attention and engage in an interesting conversation. Tell them what they want to hear..you can do that in LC session ...ROFL!! What types of job titles lend themselves to such interview (conversational)?
You're just looking for a job that doesn't require technical interview? Your skills are that rusty? Any engineering manager type job. Probably not start up or FANG, just at like a bank, telco, etc.
What is a senior lead/software dev head? Were you head of a department with managers reporting to you or a lead developer of a small team?
I was in charge/supervisor/director/head of software development group that consisted of three sub teams: .NET, Java and DB each used to have their individual team leads but over time they left and all of them reporting to me directly. I was in turn reporting to CIO and would sit in with meeting at Senior IT staff which consisted of CIO, CTO, Product Owners etc Senior Dev role would be like someone who is a senior software engineer with significant YOE. Head of Software Dev. would be someone other teach leads report to or the DEV team as a whole reports to.
If you are going for an IC role, anything above say 5-10 yoe is treated the same. Except for the ageism, that's extra.
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Haven’t had experience with positions requiring 10+ years experience but for junior positions FANG vs non FANG interviews are roughly the same. Just leetcode style questions medium to hard.
Do these jobs even exist that require 10+ years of experience? I feel that company have some sort of internal cut off where they may require 5-10 and or some other upper bound and if anyone applies who has double the experience they don't get preferential treatment. Also wonder if ageism comes into picture when showing this kind of YOE.
I will never show more than 10 years of experience because of agism. Besides after a certain point the first 5-10 are irrelevant (engineering experience not mgmt) and the second 5-10 are more relevant anyway.