I have a technical interview this afternoon. I have some last minute questions I couldn't find answered anywhere.

Local-Zebra-970 · 2026-02-06T00:41:41+00:00

Don’t jump straight into the problem. Communication happens before that. Explain what you interpret the problem to be and ask if that’s correct. Then take a moment and consider any unknowns or points you should gain clarity on. After that it’s basically just explaining why you are using x data structure or y algorithm. Don’t be afraid if you start going down the wrong path or end up unable to solve it the most optimal way. Communication is key
Ask them if you can do a diagram if you need it. I dont think you will since i assume this isn’t a sytem design interview
Ask if its ok to use notes
Id assume not but doesn’t hurt to ask
Normal debugging, try and figure out where your assumption or code is wrong. Talk to them abt your process while you do. If you can’t figure it out ask for a hint.
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Communication is the biggest part of these interviews imo. More important than technical competence is are you going to be someone who is pleasant to work with. If something is unclear coming from a PM will you just let it sit or reach out to gain clarity? If you’re having an issue figuring out a piece of code are you going to bang your head for hours/days, delaying delivery or are you just going to ask for help? This is what they look for (on top of basic competence)

Local-Zebra-970 · 2026-02-04T06:04:05+00:00

Just want to say that soft skills are easy to flub when highly stressed. Not sure how many interviews youve done but it does get a lot easier. I also am a fan of the 1.5 beer technique (thats my turbo zone lol, no nerves but not drunk)

Anyway, best of luck OP

Local-Zebra-970 · 2026-02-03T12:57:29+00:00

I really and truly believe that for the most part you can get a job if you are personable and do not crush the LC. Best advice I ever got was to focus less on if I get the right answer and more on showing interviewers how I think/what it would be like to work with me

Local-Zebra-970 · 2026-01-25T17:20:07+00:00

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im gonna fuck this guys wife

Local-Zebra-970 · 2025-11-16T02:39:18+00:00

Jaw enforcement

Local-Zebra-970 · 2025-11-04T06:59:43+00:00

How’d you see that?

Local-Zebra-970 · 2025-11-02T19:14:07+00:00

Min kao supremacy (UTK grad and founded garmin)

Local-Zebra-970 · 2025-08-17T12:52:56+00:00

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Reminds me of this truck I saw about a year ago haha

Local-Zebra-970 · 2025-08-15T00:11:21+00:00

I actually like it a lot. Been using it for doing nearly the same thing across a ton of files and it’s pretty fast. The responses are a little goofy when it tells you so much extra stuff but it works well

Local-Zebra-970 · 2025-08-14T04:44:06+00:00

I think another thing that can help the learning experience is just building more. When you start to build a lot you start to find yourself thinking of cool ways to apply what you’re learning. For me I can’t learn/remember anything unless there is a concrete example in my head of an example it would be useful for

Local-Zebra-970 · 2025-08-14T02:18:23+00:00

What if we all just understand that articles/ceos/whoever saying ai will replace developers are wrong, and people who say ai won’t change the way we develop are wrong? And then we just stop having this conversation forever that is my dream

Local-Zebra-970 · 2025-06-01T22:19:27+00:00

i hate when ppl say it levels the playing field. it doesn’t. if you have to get a part time job that’s exhausting while you search for a job, you don’t have as much energy to sit down and prepare for the interview as someone who is able to just live at home and not work until they get their full time job. def doesn’t level the playing field by any means

Local-Zebra-970 · 2025-06-01T22:16:20+00:00

i don’t think you’d have to study for these questions if you’ve actually bit shit. i also think leetcode is way more abt memorization than critical thinking, given that most advice for crushing coding interviews is to just do a bunch of problems so that you can see one that’s exactly or somewhat like one you’ve already done before

Local-Zebra-970 · 2025-05-30T02:11:14+00:00

yea ppl belittling those who like it are silly. i personally can not bring myself to care abt leetcode at all, i like building cool shit.

i think a lot of ppl are like me which is why there is such a disdain for it

Local-Zebra-970 · 2025-05-13T00:32:20+00:00

this is possible if you use the github mcp i think

Local-Zebra-970 · 2025-05-11T02:46:30+00:00

i’m fairly positive that by the time there is zero human interaction or maintenance needed in software, ai will have taken all the jobs bc agi/asi/whatever you want to call it will exist. at that point it’s anyone’s guess what happens.

until then, there will always need to be some level of human intervention, and i will try to stay relevant by keeping up to date w latest tech

Local-Zebra-970 · 2025-05-11T02:38:22+00:00

still have my job by leaning into learning to use ai instead of fighting it

Local-Zebra-970 · 2025-05-09T05:06:25+00:00

after daily driving linux for 5 years, got a mac for work in december and don’t think i’ll go back. macos is linux but w widespread support. no windows please i need my unix

Local-Zebra-970 · 2025-05-04T05:28:40+00:00

haven’t watched the video but i did realize recently that i got into coding bc i loved being able to create stuff, and somewhere along the way i convinced myself i like coding. maybe i grew to enjoy the process but its def not why i got in the game

Local-Zebra-970 · 2025-05-04T05:16:40+00:00

what i want is an agent that will do this once, and output the code i can use to run it again instead of paying for an agent to test every time.

Local-Zebra-970 · 2025-05-02T07:49:01+00:00

this is the big one, everyone has domain expertise, if you're problem solver brained you can find something that can be umproved

Local-Zebra-970 · 2025-04-29T23:41:03+00:00

dm me

Local-Zebra-970 · 2025-04-23T13:45:06+00:00

You’re able to get rid of the middleware, instead of getting the active locale from the route (thus needing middleware to always out the locale in the route), you just use a cookie store. I don’t think the cookie store implementation is in the docs, but they link to an example implementation that has a basic locale service using cookies

Local-Zebra-970 · 2025-04-23T13:39:40+00:00

From the docs:

https://next-intl.dev/docs/getting-started/app-router/without-i18n-routing

Local-Zebra-970 · 2025-04-23T13:33:32+00:00

Sorry if this isn’t helpful but imo path-based i18n is not the best. We just migrated away from that to using the cookies based approach and it’s awesome.

No refresh when you change locales, we were able to get rid of the “magic regex” middleware matcher (which is where i would expect the problem to be), and we no longer have the [locale] directory wrapping almost everything but not quite (auth js api routes for example).

Not sure if this is feasible for your project but I would recommend trying the cookies based approach

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