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Hi I am interviewing for fullstack roles and have come across some companies that ask for project deep dive interviews, where I pick a complex project from my past experience and talk through it, trade offs, blockers, impact etc. Here is the thing, my team at lyft was internal, nothing very high impact, of course as a new grad I worked hard on every project I was given and even got promo. But I feel like the projects I did don’t have much impact, my team didn’t even implement unit/ integration/ cypress testing on frontend. Manager/TL never pushed for it was mostly all about shipping features fast for a tool used by less than 100 users. Now I realise how bad the engineering culture was. How do I do well in these interviews? Yoe: 3 TC: 0 #tech #meta #amazon #netflix #google #airbnb #patreon #doordash #uber #tiktok #adobe
Here is the secret: pretty much everyone does the kind of low impact work you describe especially early career. If anything an internal tool used by dozens of people is a pretty big one. It is the corporate world. Shit’s boring. So extrapolate from the work you did. Don’t think of it as embellishment. The other thing with early career stages is, it takes time and studying to be able to see the bigger picture after the fact. So do that.
Great answer, fully agree.
Hi Apple, thanks for the insight. I have around 2.5 ish years and yeah I can’t expect to know everything from the one full time job I did. It just feels frustrating because the market just wants so much more experience and impact etc. But I gotta remember that I have a long career and many opportunities to learn.