So much useful content in this post. When it comes time to interview…

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Useful for other jobs (like product), but I imagine there’s parallels with dev roles too. Have found it’s useful creating a spreadsheet of scenarios/mini-projects where I have dealt with:

• working with large data sets
• interacting with 3rd party libraries/complex services
• running experiments and tests
• tight deadlines
• speaking to users or user research
• solving a complex problem
• managing many important priorities
• inspiring colleagues
• influencing senior colleagues
• improving development processes
• when was most happy
• handling stressful situations
• how resolved disagreement with designer / other team members

For each scenario, I logged 2+ examples of:

1. what was the situation
2. what I did myself
3. what was the result

Great to have that structure to job your memory when it comes to the interview stage. To have many examples to draw upon. It’s often the format in which many recruiters prefer too. Even if their questions are really generic.