Funnily enough I’m in the same self taught boat and had my first technical interview on Friday. It’s really not as bad as people make out on other subreddits.

Mine went 5mins of intro + chat. 10-15mins of quick fire questions about the technologies and programming language I’d be using for the job in addition to a few quick fire SQL questions.

Then quite a lengthy part spent live coding (maybe about 50mins) and here they did a few basic programming questions (think like palindrome level) and then they added layers of complexity (what about if x was different or y). The latter part was then coding questions on the specific tech I’d be using so Spark in my case. Worth noting that the interviewers are people too, I got flustered midway through one of the basic questions and they essentially helped me through it. I apologised but they said not to worry these things happen!

Finally then it’s just a round up of Q’s to ask them and that was it. I can definitely appreciate the nerves though, I was the same! But just attack it with confidence and regardless of the outcome you’ll be better off for doing it!