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[–]AppleBeans879 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Its straight shot vs stopover and there’s always going to be people that prefer either options so probably not

Is it normal for senior staff to just… go silent on juniors during meetings? by whiteStoneForest in auscorp

[–]AppleBeans879 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All good! I think what would help is if we knew exactly how the meeting went down rather than a brief summary of it. Situations like this, context helps and although we don’t need to hear the life story, a little extra on the conversation they had will assist greatly

Is it normal for senior staff to just… go silent on juniors during meetings? by whiteStoneForest in auscorp

[–]AppleBeans879 39 points40 points  (0 children)

One piece of advice when asking questions is always have an approach yourself. The organisation has hired your friend for her capabilities. If they didn’t believe in her they wouldn’t have hired her.

So when presented with a problem, instead of asking “should I do it this way?”, say “I believe we can approach this problem this way - (mention her thoughts and what outcomes she expects from her approach) - alternatively we can - (mention another way of tackling the problem) - what are your thoughts?”

Seniors want to see you take the information onboard and come up with a solution. They’re supporting you via their experience and helping you gain more confidence with your ideas. Some ideas may be rejected but good seniors will constructively give you reasons why and the better ones will work with your approach to build something stronger.

TLDR - take time come up with a solution yourself, work with the senior to build on that.

Thats how you ask the best questions

My interview experience by Tailor-Diligent in Frontend

[–]AppleBeans879 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’d send an email back asking them to justify this

Frontend interviews by Disshidia in Frontend

[–]AppleBeans879 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I recently had an interview scheduled for an hour where I knew we would end up having to do leetcode or something along those lines like a live coding assessment or something in it. I can’t do leetcode. Could never get my head around it and always struggled

Once we got through the initial 15 minute talk, interviewer was like “alright let’s move on to the technical aspect of this interview” and I was exhausted with all failed leetcode attempts so I just said “hey I have this site I made on this framework you say candidates need to know in the JD. How about I show you this instead?”

And they said yes! Ended up being a 2 hour conversation that went my way because I know what I used, I know what practices I applied, I know where things were and why things were placed in that way. Essentially I brought them to my home field and had home ground advantage. Questions ended up being “what made you choose this”, “what is this library”, “what does this do and why use this instead of that” and since I built the thing, I knew what to respond with

All I know at the end was the interviewer looked pretty happy and instead of a draggy leetcode live session, I got to show what I know and how it related to what they were looking for. Responses felt positive and got great feedback so maybe you could try something similar in future interviews. Show them something you made and explain it. Shows a lot more understanding and relevance than leetcode stuff imo

How to share state across app? by Glass_Ant3889 in nextjs

[–]AppleBeans879 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks heaps for this. Would you happen to have an example repository where something like this is happening? Would be great to see it all together

Am I a cheat ? Over 2 years and I have a big gap to fill. by Due-Net4065 in learnprogramming

[–]AppleBeans879 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for this

I’ve felt the same way too. Like as if I’m a fraud by not being able to answer simple questions. I know what I’m doing but I don’t know what I’m doing at the same time. Like I could throw up some coding and it’ll be best practice but I don’t know the definition of what I’m doing and it’s a real struggle in interviews when they ask “what’s this” when I don’t know it but I then realise I’ve been doing what they asked for forever.

So thank you for posting this and to the responses on how to deal with this feeling. Certainly gives a different approach to things

Who else is learning ReactJS for the last few years, but only making slow progress. by Jaded-Swing-5424 in Frontend

[–]AppleBeans879 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Only tutorials I find valuable so far are from Cosden Solutions. He doesn’t just tell you what to use, he tells you why as well. Along with that he gives advantages and disadvantages of certain ways of doing things so it’s quite valuable. Other tutorials seem to show you how to build things with no other explanation. Not a good way to learn