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What companies say: 1. Needs to be able to work in a fast past environment 2. We hire the top 5% of software engineers 3. We offer a competitive market rate 4. We are a family What they mean: 1. Basically everything's on fire all the time 2. We have no idea how our engineers compare to other companies 3. It competes with your bills 4. We'd push you in front of a bus What am I missing? 🤔

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Yes, definitely most of companies are mixing up these jobs. Few years ago I was on an interview for senior dev position in a company which provides learning tools and services. I was asked not only about large variety of algorithms (graphs, trees, clustering, caching/memoization and etc.) but also about mathematical statistics (they had few reports in their application). So I was expecting something interesting, but next 5 or 6 months (whole planned contract) I worked on some basic user forms, CRUD APIs and APIs based on GraphQL. Do they need an engineer which matches their hiring process? I believe with such hiring process they filtered out a lot of good engineers which can provide what they need in the best way. And a lot of companies are doing the same.

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Why do so many companies focus on LeetCode-style questions when interviewing software developers? While these questions challenge problem-solving skills, they often prioritize hiring mathematicians over practical software developers. If you're looking to hire a developer, consider evaluating their real-world capabilities—review their portfolio, assess past projects, or have them build a feature in a few hours. These methods provide a far better insight into how they’ll perform on the job.

Questions to ask. Most companies I interviewed with, as well as all companies I interviewed for were keeping some time (typically - in the end of every interview) to give candidate an opportunity to ask questions about team/company/project. The questions I asked (and was asked) in these cases vary with companies, obviously, but there was one question that I came up with (as software engineer) that may be a very interesting technical indicator to consider: * How many lines of code does the team owns? (order of magnitude - 10k/100k/1m ...) Why I find this question insightful? Well, to few means green field project, a lot of freedom, high risk/high reward-ish situation, etc. To many means legacy (what is too many depends on language/stack, do we include configurations, etc.). Being unable to provide an estimate is a red flag, if it comes from senior people - either lack of awareness, or blurry boundaries. Providing significantly different numbers by different people (more than 1 order of magnitude) - also red flag and blurry boundaries. What non-trivial/insightful questions did you ask in this situation, or may be was asked by the candidate? (and by the way - our team is looking for a software engineer to join - message me if interested)

Here’s a little unsolicited advice to all new Software Engineers: remove “Associate” “Aspiring” “Future” “Hobbiest” or anything that’s in front of “Software Engineer” from your headline. If you are writing code for the purposes of developing software of any kind, you are a Software Engineer.