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You're Not Interviewing for the Job. You're Auditioning for the Job Title
I once had a job interview for a backend position. Their stack was Node.js, MySQL, nothing exotic. The interviewer asked: "If you have an array containing a million entries, how would you sort the dat
Act III: Invoke the Gods of Tech Finally, you debate consensus algorithms for a blog comment system, mention observability and SLOs for good measure, and whisper "eventual consistency" like an incantation that will ward off all future scaling problems. You'll spend your days deleting unused microservices that "future-proofed" against scale that never came, arguing against message queues for problems that cron jobs solve perfectly, and consolidating databases that were split "for scalability" but now just create maintenance overhead. You'll find yourself explaining to eager junior developers why the new feature doesn't need its own Kubernetes namespace, and why sometimes a simple bash script is more reliable than a distributed system.
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