1. Hijacking the Interview Dynamic
When faced with an interrogation style of endless questions, answer the next question with a question to shift the dynamic into a balanced fifty-fifty conversation that yields useful context.
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0:45 · 15 December 2022
How To Hijack Your Next Technical Interview(for Software Developers) #javascript #typescript
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What happens in taking interviews, more often than not, is that you answer one question and then comes another, and another, and another. And it becomes a Tom and Jerry kind of interview, where they are just out there to get you. It becomes an interrogation. You start feeling powerless and you start messing up the whole thing. If you want to increase your chances, you have to hijack this process. And the way you do that is if the interview starts following this weird dynamic of question after question after question, you answer the next question with a question. So, if they ask you about something like, "Hey, what are the
advantages of server-side rendering?" You say something like, "Yeah, the main benefit is performance as well as SEO. Are you currently doing SSR or are you planning on implementing?" Now, they do the talk. The interrogation, it's over. Now, it's a 50-50 game, where you are getting context and information that will help you answer future questions more effectively.