Hi folks, what is your current employment type?

Hey, folks! I'm curious to know how you deal with what I call "interview fatigue". When I start a new recruitment process, I'm basically constructing a whole vision of my next few years and presenting that to a new face. I'm also doing that over and over again for every new company that want to talk to me. Given I've been looking for work all year, I'm only now realising just how cognitively demanding this process is. Have you experienced this? How do you deal with it?

So I just took the Technical Assessment and the results are a revelation! Turns out my weaknesses are not what I thought they were: 1. "Architecture" - I thought I had a great handle on system design, turns out I don't know what I'm talking about so well! 2. "Software Lifecycle" - I believed I was totally comfortable with this domain, turns out it's a big blind spot 3. "Thinking Fullstack" - I'm very into the whole "full stack"/ "delivering end-to-end" idea, but looks like I have some work to do And my strengths: 1. "UI" - it's not my strongest interest, but I guess I put in the hours over the years? 2. "Algorithms" - total surprise! Never believed I knew my way around algos and data structures The only thing that makes sense here is I've always been passionate about Code Quality - phew! So if you haven't taken the Assessment, I highly recommend it - you might get a surprise too! BTW, anyone got any tips on how to get better at those first three?

So, I just had a hiring process fall through at the final stage and the last interview was... weird. The questions were digging uncomfortably far back into my early life - I was asked about my origins, my childhood, my parents, growing up. By the time we got to my work history, I was *really* off balance and struggled to come with good responses. So now I'm wondering - why did they go there? If you were hiring an engineer, how much detail would you like to know about their past?

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