Hiring

401 — What is your plan when you get here?

This is a question that pops up often enough these days for it to be relevant. We’ll do a shallow dive on this question, it falls on the harder side of the equation given our sample question set.

The things you will know

Well, we are all faced with common questions and you should at least have the preparation for. Some of these, you will get good at with practice. Others, you just need to think about them some more. These will be

The toolkit for your interview needs

We chat about what tools you can bring to help you get ahead. Its you and your tools against the big bad world so its only fair that we do a primer on your tools.

201 — A word about discovery

Hunting for jobs is time consuming. It is often frustrating. The actual onsite meetings are about half a day each and with travel factored in, you will soon run out of family members to make sick to account for your time off or “WFH” days. So its only fair that you do your…

401 — Any questions for me?

Questions for the interviewer are, how do I put it, sleepy nappy time. Sleepy nappy time is when an interviewer no longer has to smile at you and run all those mental cycles trying to figure out if you were a good investment of time. You probably weren’t.

101 — Of companies, firms and organizations

Tricked you, they are largely the same and more or less interchangeable.

Companies try to be a lot of things, think of them as a best guess as to what a group of individuals agreed on sometime ago. Just like you after a couple…

401 — Failures and how you learn from them

Failures are easy. Its actually pretty remarkably easy. Did you try to make those eggs well done today? Did you actually need a small coffee when 2 hours later you’ll be foaming at the mouth for a caramel macchiato? Did you gym today morning like you…

401 — Your favorite app!

If the interviewer is lazy — and lets face it — they probably are — they will ask you about your favorite app. Its critical you pick well. If you have been paying attention, you should know that this is about getting a job an not about being a hipster admirer of arcane apps that no…

101 — Lets see what you like

Great! you have made it this far. Now, is the fun part. You get to look at companies that are out there in the world and decide if you like them or not. Sort of like Tinder but no matches ever happen (On the bright side, no one gets hurt either).

101 — Evaluation Of Rocketships and Racketships

Following on from Stage 1 — we dig into the stages of the company -

Rocketships — Your Slack is an example of this. Typically you will be kneeing fellow students in the gut for a chance to make eye contact with a…