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What's up, everybody?

Travis here from Travis .media.

Today, I want to look at an article

that I think will be helpful for anyone planning their first or even fifth interview for a programming job.

I'm always fascinated in hearing what people who conduct these interviews on a regular basis expect from those interviewing

and what kind of mistakes people keep making so that you

and I can be sure not to make these same mistakes and stand out better.

So in this video, I'll give you five lessons

that you can take away from this information and better equip yourself for that next interview.

Let's get started.

So I found this really good

Medium article, which can be really rare for Medium nowadays.

And it's targeted towards senior engineers specifically.

And it's actually called, This is Why I Didn't Accept You as a Senior Software Engineer.

But I think it applies all the way down the chain to mid and even junior level engineers.

Even if this is your first interview.

Because if you're exhibiting behavior like a senior in your junior interview, it's a good thing.

So let's take a look at this article.

So here's what the author says.

I've been interviewing engineers for different companies for the last few years.

But lately I've been turning down candidates like never before.

I'm still using the same questions.

Nothing's changed The problem is

that people have no idea about what it means to be a senior engineer and these professionals are scarcer than ever

Okay, that's good.

Let's find out the skills

We need to work on to make us some of those scarce people and that leads us to lesson one General knowledge.

I call it general knowledge.

He calls it development methodologies

So let me read this development methodologies or organizational methods that are meant to make teams effective

These could be boring for us, but it's expected of you to have expertise in them.

During my years of work, I have developed a rejection of non -agile development methodologies.

And more than that, I think that Scrum is not agile enough.

Its exhaustive use ends up helping the ego of the project managers more than the programmers.

I agree, though I like Scrum, but I like this meme too.

So here's the point.

When I do an interview, I look for that capacity of criticism in developers, knowing Scrum is not enough.

But you also have to know its disadvantages and propose solutions to them.

So the lesson here is that you shouldn't be agreeing to everything.

We go into the interview and we're like, yeah, yeah, I like that.

Yeah, I like this.

But you should be forming opinions about things with reasons to back them up.

Not in a quarrelsome way, but no one really wants another developer that just does whatever he

or she is told without sometimes disagreeing or offering better or alternative solutions.

As a developer, programming is only part of the job.

Another very important part is leaning in with your expertise on the task at hand.

Maybe the feature that the project manager

or the client wants is not a good idea or will not go well with how things are currently built.

You're needed to speak up, share your concern, and offer a better alternative.

In the case of this interviewer, he's looking for someone that can offer their opinions of Scrum regardless if you like it or not.

You can actually offer your opinion about it

and not just agree to whatever he says about it in the hopes

that they give you the job because you guys are the same.

The lesson here is to read up on things.

Form opinions yourself about industry -wide tools and development methodologies and be able to speak your mind about it if asked.

The point here is not that you need to learn Scrum for this guy.

The point is that if you're asked about Scrum, you have an opinion about it.

We want to carry on a conversation with the interviewer and not just nod our heads at everything said.

And I'll close lesson one with this quote here.

I thought it was good.

General knowledge will help you form better opinions and show you're willing to learn outside your field.

General knowledge is important.

Read up, form your opinions.

Lesson two, how well do you know your language?

He labels this section software design principles.

The reason the rockstar engineer is so much more valuable than his counterparts isn't unique to programming.

The great software engineer is incredibly creative and can see conceptual patterns that others can't.

After finishing every interview, this is important.

Listen to what this guy is saying.

After finishing every interview, when writing feedback for the candidate, I swear I could copy and paste the same response every time.

And it's this.

I suggest you read more about Python design patterns.

A good resource can be this guide.

We'll get back to that guide in a minute.

It's so easy to filter candidates with design principles.

Only in really strange cases, I've found people with an answer to all of these questions.

And he goes on to say that, hey, these design patterns are challenging.

It's not always easy to apply and recall them.

But forcing yourself to do these checks while you're programming will put you a step ahead.

Why do we use length array in Python while in other language we can use array dot length?

Is there any optimization behind it? how much do you know your language

so this lesson is twofold number one learn about your language design patterns

and two know your language well that's why when i say

if you're starting out programming learn one language

and learn it well like javascript you could do everything with it

or python that's a popular one let's say that you learn python first

and you decide to go all in with it learn

it well learn its quirks find a book like one of those o'reilly books

that goes in depth with the language

and be able to discuss things like why python is using

a length function instead of a length method as this author mentions sure

this may be more catered to senior interviews

but it will help you stand out better as a junior

if you're at least familiar with the deeper parts of a language such

that you can carry on a conversation about it you don't

have to be an expert just be able to carry on

the conversation think about books like javascript the good parts a book that's old

but really helps you see what's going on under the hood and learn about the quirks of the language.

He says here, reading a book about the language you use is absolutely necessary when you're growing.

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Any senior engineering interview will include advanced questions

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that you will only know by reading because books always go deeper than online courses.

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So do the online courses, learn the stuff, and then go deeper.

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Learn the language, build projects, get familiar, learn algorithms, but also here and there,

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read a new chapter or two that takes you a little bit deeper.

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Next, try to learn some design patterns for that language,

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or really design patterns in general with programming yes even as a junior as you build your apps

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if it's python then do check out this link

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that he provides it's a really really good resource it's at python -patterns .guide

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and here you have a handful of principles and patterns

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that you can learn

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if you're using the python language as the author suggests

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we're actually going to be working through some of these in the travis media community

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when it reopens in january i closed it for december

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because i'm doing a complete makeover

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and overhaul of the community it's going to be awesome

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when it relaunches if you want to be notified when

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that reopens just go to travis .media slash community put your email in this form here

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and i'll email you when it reopens and work it into your hobby projects

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or your portfolio projects you of course don't have to memorize all of these

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and be able to implement them all but

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if you're at least familiar with them

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and can implement a few that's enough to allow you into the conversation

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and thus have an opinion which is part of lesson one

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that we just talked about lesson three is check your attitude look at this

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Working with a vain person is immensely difficult.

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They make you feel bad all of the time and create bad vibes in the team.

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In the long term, the damage that such a person can do, the company can be very expensive.

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This has been an experience for any and every developer out there probably, working with a toxic developer.

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Companies are looking for great humans when they're offering humongous salaries, and part of that is being a good person.

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When doing an interview, we're not only evaluating the candidate's knowledge, but also his or her attitude.

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In a specific process I did months ago, the company asked us specifically to look for good and honest persons more than great programmers.

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He was told to look for good and honest people more than great, great programmers.

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I can attest to companies doing this personally.

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A job I had in the past as a site reliability engineer did just that.

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The CTO landed a new contract.

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They needed like 30 people, local people.

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We had to go into the office, but he went on LinkedIn.

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He found a bunch of people in my city, me being one of them.

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He reached out, called me on the phone, told me the situation, and told me the company's philosophy,

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which was we look for good people who can easily learn the stuff.

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He said a lot of companies, they want the best programmers.

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They don't care about the people themselves or their personalities.

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They just want the best programmers.

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This company flipped all of that and is looking for good people who love to learn, are easily teachable, and don't have attitudes.

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So we talked.

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Things went really well.

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I still had the coding exam, but I got the job despite not really being qualified as an SRE.

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I was a developer.

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But they were looking for good people who were eager to learn and weren't toxic to be around.

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A bad attitude or lying could imply an immediate elimination from a selection process.

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Lying, too.

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I always recommend the book, How to Win Friends and Influence People.

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It's one of those books that everybody should read to have better relationships in life.

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That happens to be a book we're just finishing up in the Travis Media community.

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It's a good one.

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You should read it.

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Before we get to lesson four, quick intermission.

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What should a junior mid -read to become a senior?

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Here are some fantastic resources to grow as a senior developer.

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I'll put links to these below because this article is a member -only article.

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Some of you may not be members, but they're really good.

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You could use AI to simulate an interview.

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Here's some websites a programmer should visit.

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But these community -driven roadmaps are really neat.

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Just wanted to mention it real quick.

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If you need a roadmap for learning some technology, let's say you want to learn JavaScript, just go down here, click JavaScript Roadmap.

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Takes you to a site called roadmap .sh slash JavaScript.

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And you just start from the beginning.

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So introduction to JavaScript.

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What is JavaScript?

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History of JavaScript.

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Once you're done with that, you move on to all about variables.

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You learn about variable declarations, hoisting, and you just continue to go down the line until you know everything about the language.

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Use this tool to go deeper with the language, as we mentioned in Lesson 2.

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Lesson 4 is, what about my coding skills?

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So far, we've mainly been talking about communication skills, knowledge skills, being able to carry on a technical conversation.

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We often think we just need to know all the algorithms and they'll love us, but that isn't the case.

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It's both, and often we tip the scales more on the technical stuff, for lack of the communication stuff.

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But we do need the coding skills.

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So this author recommends LeetCode.

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I think everybody's recommending LeetCode Premium.

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I bought LeetCode Premium some months ago.

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It was a great decision to land my current job.

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On your way, you'll discover interesting math, curiosities, patterns, and optimizations from other users.

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Not an affiliate.

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I have no incentive to tell you this.

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That's just what he recommends.

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Simulating an interview from a big company can also be useful to understand how they're structured.

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Lesson five, the hard but understandable truth.

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This is very important you simply may not be the right profile for the company

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it's not you it's me right no seriously quit beating yourself up

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because you sucked everyone sucks at the coding interview

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i actually have a really old video that's a bit cringy about

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when i really bombed an interview in the past

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i'll put a link to it above even after reading a lot of material

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Practicing every day and having a lot of experience you could be rejected

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because you're just not the right profile for the company

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So lesson five is that you may do great at the interview

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You may be expecting to land the job and then you get the bad news

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But you have to remember that it may just be that you weren't a good fit for that role

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Nothing to do with your skills nothing to do with you personally

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But that company has a profile certain profile they want to fill

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and maybe you just weren't that the only things you can expect from yourself

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Are resilience and persistence those are not only the skills

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that will secure your job in the future but they also are the main skills we expect from a senior engineer.

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If you found this video helpful, give it a thumbs up, consider subscribing to the channel, and I'll see you in the next video.

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Thanks for watching.

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lesson 名词	/ˈlɛs.ən/	課業 /课业, -課 /-课
skill 名词	/skɪl/	技巧, 技能
programmer 名词	/ˈpɹoʊɡɹæmɚ/	程序員 /程序员, 程式員 /程式员
methodology 名词	/ˌmɛθ.əˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/	方法論 /方法论
principle 名词	/ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pəl/	原理, 原則 /原则
helpful 形容词	/ˈhɛlp.fl̩/	有幫助 /有帮助
suck 动词	/sʌk/	吸吮, 咂
resource 名词	/ɹɪˈzɔːs/	資源 /资源
toxic 形容词	/ˈtɒk.sɪk/	有毒的
implement 动词	/ˈɪmpləmənt/	實施 /实施, 執行 /执行
expertise 名词	/ˌɛkspɜːˈtiːz/	專門知識 /专门知识
algorithm 名词	/ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/	算法, 演算法
optimization 名词	/ˌɑptəmaɪˈzeɪʃən/	優化 /优化
scarce 形容词	/ˈskɛɚs/	缺乏的
interviewer 名词	/ˈɪntɚvjuɚ/	訪問者 /访问者

视频中出现的短语动词

单词	释义
go down 动词	下降, 下去
check out 动词	退房
end up 动词	到达
find out 动词	找出, 查明
turn down 动词	拒絕 /拒绝, 回絕 /回绝

值得反复跟读的句子

视频中简短而完整的句子，可以直接用在日常对话里：

I'm still using the same questions.
Lesson two, how well do you know your language?
We'll get back to that guide in a minute.

视频中的语法

说话人最常用的结构，并附上视频中的原话：

结构	视频中的用法
现在完成进行时 have/has been + -ing — 以前开始、现在仍在继续的动作	I've been interviewing · I've been turning · we've mainly been talking
定语从句 who / which + 从句 — 补充说明人或事物	people who conduct · article, which can · someone that can
被动语态 be + 过去分词 — 强调发生了什么，而不是谁做的	are meant · is told · are currently built
现在完成时 have/has + 过去分词 — 过去发生但与现在仍有关联的事	have developed · I've found · has been

需要注意的发音

说话人用了 47 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 you're, I'll, don't。请按听到的简短形式来说。

“th” 音: methodology /ˌmɛθ.əˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/, math /mæθ/, thumb /ˈθʌm/
“sh” 和 “zh” 音: optimization /ˌɑptəmaɪˈzeɪʃən/, declaration /ˌdɛk.ləˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, elimination /ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/, rejection /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/, organizational /ˌɔː(ɹ)ɡənɪˈzeɪʃənəl/
长单词——注意重音位置: developer /dɪˈvɛləpɚ/, methodology /ˌmɛθ.əˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, optimization /ˌɑptəmaɪˈzeɪʃən/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, portfolio /pɔːtˈfəʊ.liˌəʊ/

中文母语者容易读错的音：

/v/ — 不要读成 /w/，上齿轻触下唇: developer /dɪˈvɛləpɚ/, travis /ˈtɹeɪvəs/, variable [ˈvæɹ.i.ə.bl̩], interviewer /ˈɪntɚvjuɚ/, discover /dɪˈskʌvə/
词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: travis /ˈtɹeɪvəs/, suck /sʌk/, resource /ɹɪˈzɔːs/, toxic /ˈtɒk.sɪk/, implement /ˈɪmpləmənt/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的区别: principle /ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pəl/, variable [ˈvæɹ.i.ə.bl̩], algorithm /ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/, regardless /ɹɪˈɡɑɹd.lɪs/, recall /ɹɪˈkɔl/

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