My thoughts about interview
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If you are my employer don't read it, please. Spoilers!!!
I have got an interview today. Earlier I had got pre-interview with russian speaker on english. I had pass that and had accepted for next level. It was a technical director, I think. He started to ask me wierd questions for me in the begining. It was questions what functions do I use. Arrr! It is age of IDE systems now. I don't remember whole name of any function in very familar frameworks, because I need to enter a few chars of it and IDE guess it for me. The next question was about reactive programming. Because we had talking about angular before, I thought that question thouches react.js, I not familar with It so I started to stuggle / stummer. As a ressult is my interview fail.
But what I think about such theoretical questions. I think it like to ask to describe how you are catching the balance when riding a bicycle. It can be described by a bicycle teacher, but extreme rider can't do such thing. A extreme rider is doing it well and doesn't think about it.
I know that it is a pluss to know it, but I think that it isn't so nessesary.
What do you think about it? Make a comment, I will be thanked to you.
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My thoughts about interview
Dear readerIf you are my employer don't read this, please. Spoilers!!!
I have got an interview today. Earlier I had got a pre-interview with a Russian speaker in English. I passed that and was accepted for the next level. He was a technical director, I think. He started to ask me wierd questions __ at the begining. They were questions about what functions do I use. Aaaarrrggghhhh! ! It is the age of IDE systems now. I don't remember the whole name of any function in very familar frameworks, because I need to enter a few characters of it and IDE guesses it for me. The next question was about reactive programming. Because we had been talking about angular before, I thought that question thouches react.js, I was not familar with It so I started to stuggle / stammer. As a ressult is my interview was a failure.
But what do I think about such theoretical questions? I think it like asking how to describe how you keep your balance when riding a bicycle. It can be described by a bicycle teacher, but an expert rider can't do such a thing. An expert rider does it well and doesn't think about it.
I know that it is a plus to know it, but I think that it isn't so nessesary.
What do you think about it? Make a comment, I will be grateful to you.
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I have got an interview today. Earlier I had got had a pre-interview with a russian Russian speaker on english in English. I had passed that and had been accepted for the next level. It was a technical director, I think. He started to ask me wierd weird questions for me in the begining. It was questions such as "what functions do you use". Arrr! It is the/an age of IDE systems now. I don't remember the whole name of any function even in very familar frameworks, because I need to enter a few chars of it and IDE the guesses it for me. The next question was about reactive programming. Because we had talking about angular Angular before, I thought that question thouches touches react.js, I am not familar with It so I started to stuggle / stummerstammer. As a ressult is my interview fail. result, I failed my/the interview.
But what I think about such theoretical questions: I think it is like asking you like to ask to describe how you are catching the balance balance when riding a bicycle. It can be described by a bicycle teacher, but an extreme rider can't do such thing. An extreme rider is doing it well and doesn't think about it.
I know that it is a pluss plus to know it, but I think that it isn't so nessesary necessary.
1 Capitalisation of nationalities, languages, countries;
2 "Earlier I had passed" past perfect because you are saying that the earlier interview was complete and then followed by something else. We form the past perfect with had + past participle
3 "Had been accepted" is in the passive voice. https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verbs/active-and-passive-voice
4 "For the next level" , we need the definite article here because there is only one next level.
5 "Which functions do you use?" for direct speech (i.e. what was actually said). For indirect speech, "He asked me which functions I used," we remove the do because it's no longer a question (as it is reported), we change the verb to simple past. Different rules apply according to the tense used by the speaker. The basic rule is to move back in time by one tense. Also, "you" changes to "I". https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/quick-grammar/reported-speech-1
6 "IDE guesses" there is one IDE in this sentence that does the guessing, the subject and verb need to agree.
7 Capital Angular because it is a proper name.
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I agree with you. They need some of your achievements. But also you must prove that it is yours, because there are a lot of tricky guys in the internet. And all managers like theory about how it works, because they have to manage you and send reports to their managers. :)
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I agree with you because when I got such an interview employer just check on me on some functions that I can or cannot heard but when I asked "what we should do" and provided another ways of desicion. After that I was really liked them but I hadn't had work, well, that's a story for another day :-) As far as I know, they need just your beautiful code and some working what you did on github or something like this. If I say something wrong, please correct me
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