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Isaac Browne

Wow congrats on you first dev job!!!! 😃. You are right about getting accoustom to using other codebase besides your own. In my bootcamp we are paired to do projects together and then our code gets reviewed via PR once accepted then we can merge. So far that has been a learning experience because I never did a PR before lol. We also will be contributing to open source projects I think and we do have mentors.Thats really cool how you pull the codebase for this site and studied and contribute that's takes patience and will power,I'm sure it's intimidating at some point.If you don't mind ne asking how difficult was the interviewing process ? Did you do a technical interview ?

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Arit Developer

Absolutely, the whole interview process took about 2 weeks.

First was a take-home coding exercise which they gave 3 days to complete. It was in Ruby and involved creating Classes and methods to process the data given. It was moderately challenging, for me anyways.

Second step was a non-technical phone conversation with the business people; this was more behavioral in nature - how do you work with others, etc. This was the most pleasant part of the process lol.

Last was a 3-hour on-site interview which was very technical; they used scenario-based questions, whiteboarding and pair-programming. At any given time I was speaking with 4-5 devs at a time, so it felt a little overwhelming. But I gave my best answers, and was sure to say "I don't know yet" when I didnt have a clue about a question.

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Isaac Browne

Thanks for your reply, I guess there is no running away from it huh! Technical interview must present it self lol. You are a great writer also maybe you should write a book sometime.