5 Detrimental Interview Mistakes That Are Holding You Back From Getting Your First Developer Job
Could you be failing your interviews due to one of these detrimental mistakes?
In an interview, any slip-up will cost you a job opportunity.
Throughout my time as a Software Engineer, I have spotted a pattern of mistakes that Junior Developers make that instantly puts them out of contention for a job.
Here are the five detrimental mistakes junior developers must avoid when interviewing:
Mistake 1. Quitting halfway through a technical interview
Technical interviews are purposely hard.
Assessing a junior developer using LeetCode style questions, is like asking a lorry driver to complete a time-trial race in a sports car as part of their interview.
It’s overkill. LeetCode questions do not represent the work a developer faces at their day job.
In my first five technical interviews, I gave up the test halfway through. I felt defeated by the questions and my ability.
In hindsight, this was a mistake.
