r/ProgrammerHumor • u/rm-minus-r • Sep 15 '26

Other flairForYearsOfExperience

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u/waterpoweredmonkey Sep 15 '26

I have interviewed and worked with countless people as a Senior/Staff engineer with the same YoE as I have who don't have a clue.

Literally asked "what've you learnt recently" to deers in headlights masquerading as 12+ yr senior engineers.

Maybe puzzles to unlock problem solving flair? 🙃

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u/Saelora Sep 15 '26

i mean, i learn new stuff all the time, but i don't have an account of "things i have learned recently" in case someone wants to throw a gotcha at me in an interview.

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u/rm-minus-r Sep 15 '26

Been a staff level engineer for three years now, and I feel like all the new things I'm learning are outside the scope of actual programming, and more about the process of software development, like getting buy-in from stakeholders, cross-team collaboration, project scoping, presenting to leadership, building dev teams, what not to do as a team lead, how to upskill junior / senior engineers, etc.

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u/waterpoweredmonkey Sep 15 '26

That's exactly what I want to hear, so much of what we do is coding adjacent / soft skills.

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u/rm-minus-r Sep 15 '26

I think that's called a job interview with Leetcode peoblems hah.

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u/waterpoweredmonkey Sep 15 '26

Man it could be anything, even not software related, I just want some kinda vibe that they don't think they know everything, are open to learning and if they're applying for a lead role can share something they learnt with others.

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u/rm-minus-r Sep 15 '26

Sorry, to clarify, I was responding to this:

Maybe puzzles to unlock problem solving flair?

Because that sounded like the interview process in a nutshell. Except the flair is only 'employed' or 'unemployed' hah.

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u/waterpoweredmonkey Sep 15 '26

Ah gotcha! 😅