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Discussion on: [Question] Have you had an interview where you just talked about previous work, no assignments? Please share your experience!

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Jen Chan

Talking about previous projects: I like it! You get to show off a bit and also show what you learned and what your existing flaws are. It also gives the interviewer a good idea where you're at when they ask you how long something took. (Which for me, is longer than the average dev but i think the important part is figuring it out without giving up)

My current job I got through a series of background/how-do-you-deal-with-people interviews. I kept bracing for a code test but it didn't happen?

Take home tests: I've done the debug-this-problem thing.

I've also had conversational rapidfire q&a interviews just to quiz me on fundamentals, and those are a lot easier than being put on the spot, coding without internet. However after a handful of failures at the coding-sans-internet tests I felt like I had to get my rigour up, which was a good motivator.