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Discussion on: 5 Mistakes You're Making In Your Technical Interviews & How To Avoid Them

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The problem with modern day's tech interview is that it kinda expects you to know everything about everything. Just software engineering alone has large number of technologies/discipline which probably requires one's life time to master all. Yet many jobs require you to know different programming languages/frameworks/libraries across various domains.

Unless you are ok with limiting your job perspective, I'd say don't be too honest at a job interview. Job interview is about marketing yourself rather than showing who you really are. This doesn't mean you should lie about your experience, what you should do instead is to study and prepare hard beforehand and then paint it in the way so it looks that you've known more than just the basics.

At the end of the day, this is just a game, people who are "perceived" as the best candidate got the job.