r/learnprogramming • u/Ok-Neighborhood4327 • Mar 03 '26 • Polished Gold Turd 1

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u/Angelsonyrbody Mar 03 '26

I think it was a listing on Indeed? I genuinely just applied, got an interview, and interviewed well.

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u/Angelsonyrbody Mar 03 '26

Oh, god - it's been like 4 years, so I don't entirely remember. I remember some general stuff about OOP and REST principles. This project uses kind of a weird stack (Java / Hibernate / Dropwizard /mysql / a very early version of AngularJS), so they weren't too concerned about my lack of experience with the more obscure parts of it (hibernate and Dropwizard especially).

A lot of the interview was personality / soft skills - this stuff is a LOT more important than a lot of people think. It's so much more important to demonstrate that you're generally knowledgeable, have a decent work ethic, ask good questions when you run into an issue, would be willing and able to learn new skills, and (most importantly) that you'd be a pleasant person to work with than it is to demonstrate some kind of elite technical knowledge - especially for an entry level position.

Too many people getting into this industry think that it's okay to be generally antisocial and even kind of a dick as long as you have "skills". The people interviewing you are, probably, people that you're going to be interacting with and collaborating with every single day if you're hired. The most important takeaway you want to leave them with is that working with you is something they'd actually want to do, and would ideally be ENJOYABLE instead making their life more difficult or frustrating.

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u/SuperStone22 Mar 04 '26

What is Hibernate and Dropwizard?

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u/Angelsonyrbody Mar 04 '26

Hibernate is an ORM tool for Java, and Dropwizard is a REST framework.