Well, about 4h30m to the interview and I'm stressed. Honestly, this is why I hate interviews, because it seems the more I study up, the more I feel...
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I can't believe getting a job is this hard these days 😮 Why are they taking it this seriously??? 4.5 HOURS for an interview??! What might those other candidates be doing?
EDIT: The interview is only 1 hour. My mistake.
No no, the interview is 1h, but it's at 6pm CET, so 4.5h to the interview
Oh. But still too much, honestly.
Yeah, but 1h is a safe bet for thoroughly going through things and discussing what comes next. Also given that how it goes, we'd likely discuss the offer? So fingers crossed they dont try to screw me...
I mean the overall process. The offer is the most awkward part, right? Given that they care this much, you'll probably get a solid offer! Just make sure to be calm, as xulingfeng said.
Fingers crossed! The main thing is they're a small team in a startup, I'd be person nr 10 and that means that they dont really have the capital to offer top bracket... But lets hope they dont low-ball too low...
LMAO, you’re just overthinking, stuck in anxiety and mental exhaustion.🤣 My advice: ask your fiancée to give you a heavy knock to snap you out of it, grab some KFC if you can, and look up yogic breathing. Be a man and stop being so indecisive.😏
You say this, as you know KFC is a town away 😭 You are right though. But it was just my mind looking for strings and I found them! It took me a while... But I now understand what this debrief is for and why they asked me to design both systems... Because their AFS system is exactly why porting pgrust is a mess! That's why they wanted me to design a POC and deliberately leave it lean, so after I am done with both tasks, during the debrief, we can discuss how my design would need to be expanded in order to replace theirs and how it would affect eg. pgrust!
In the end, an anxious mind, is a mind seeking answers and once it finds them, there's a calm. So I can now confidently say, I'm ready for the debrief, cuz I know exactly what they're going to ask and I know exactly why they're going to ask it too. They admitted that their AFS system is in a bad state and it shows, half the fixes to make pgrust work, were workarounds, because they didnt stick to POSIX, which is a pretty big oof, given they market WASIX as expanding WASI to add POSIX capabilities. It all makes sense now!
It never dawned on me while fixing it, because I thought it was separate tasks, 1 experimental, 1 implemental, turns out the goal is how to turn an experimental and implemental into 1 production grade codebase! Which is funny really, because POSIX AFS is exactly what I ran into with the Notepad++ implementation, because of roughly the exact same reasons... The only other issue with Wasmer's side is that they dont have durability really figured out, which I sorted out during my initial tech demo! Combined with the AFS I designed, pgrust would have just worked, not even need patching, because it would have been compliant and durable with a single command addition.
Ooohhhh, this is good, I wonder how many of the other candidates connected the dots? Cuz I only found the threads when I went outside of the scope to optimize, they werent recycling worker threads, which with a basic app wouldnt cause any issue, but with pg opening and closing connections, it'd cause exhaustion within an hour... And without a durability layer, pg would just die, it wouldnt be able to checkpoint or reload at all, just dead, spin up a new instance. So now I know exactly why they're hiring me and what I'll be working on first, cuz why assign me to something else, if I already built out 90% of what's necessary to fix their core infrastructure?
Awesome! Glad you’ve figured it all out. Just relax now. I can send you some photos of KFC here if you want, showing exclusive Chinese KFC menu items unique to China.🤣
Sure, why not, I'm kinda curious about the exclusives you get there 😂
Update, social anxiety struck again... I hit blank during the debrief. Simple stuff, like explain the fork semantics, how does concurrency work, etc. All things I hit blank on. I just dont interview well... BUT they did see that and said, ok, lets postpone to tomorrow and we try again. so tomorrow 6pm, I have a repeat of tonight's interview... Honestly at this point I'm gunna take 3 shots before the interview, to just calm my nerves. I imagine a bit of a side-effect of being bedridden for over 6 months, interacting with nobody but my fiance... So gameplan is to play some games and genuinely relax, reset, then make some flashcards, so I have good reference material to prepare off of. Cuz I know what I'm doing, but putting it into words... Not quite my forte...
My personal suggestion: find a book or binge some movies and TV shows during this time. Hmm, I don’t even know whether I should comfort you or tease you, hahaha 😂
You know here's the silverlining:
There will come a point in your career, where you'll just mentally and emotionally grow out of it.
You'll see too much chernobyl to take any software engineer seriously.
That's when you'll just simply, go in there, do your part, they do their part, so that Cindy from Billing can do her job and write it into Excel.
This is the reality: This is cozy, 0 risk, 0 impact, office work, salarymen stuff.
Essentially a more manbun version of the xerox era, but in homeoffice underwear 🤣
This profession was never a serious thing.
It is just a try hard exercise at sounding serious while sitting in a cubicle and staring at a display 🤣
4 hours 30 minutes out, CEO plus Tech Lead plus Senior in the room, and you already know you're going to dance like a chicken even though you built the whole thing. Man. That is not you being scatter brained. Your subconscious decides how safe you are through a filter called the RAS. Panel about to grill method signatures and why not some other approach reads as a threat, so it clamps. Knowing the architecture cold does not unlock it.
You cannot logic that open with another round of studying. Your brain is a neural network trained on every interview room where sounding sharp mattered more than shipping. Old data says get judged and choke. New data is the only update.
So get a few reps before you walk in that have nothing to do with AFS or pgrust. Genuine compliment to a stranger. Cool shoes, nice jacket, whatever you actually notice. When that is easy, add how's your day going. Does not matter how it lands. The action is the win, not how clean you quote a signature. Stack enough of those and that hour stops owning your nervous system.
This shit is real!