--- title: Interviews as an Employer created_date: 2025-01-16 updated_date: 2025-01-16 aliases: tags: --- # Interviews as an Employer ## Software Developer - Don't focus on C++ (other language) --> this is learnable - Focus on abstraction (less learnable) - Can we eliminate one of the 4 images? ![[Pasted image 20250116163115.png]] - Find as many different ways to remove 1 from the others. less than 8 (not interested in hiring you). This is important because abstracting is not learnable. Abstraction leads to clean code. --> focus on non-learnable skills during the interview. the rest can be done in the onboarding process (see [[Design Patterns by Construx#Use Abstractions]]. ![[Pasted image 20250116163238.png]] Pizza: singleton vs many, payment type, gold: periodic element on table vs compounds