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Effective Interviewing Through Storytelling

maltzj
March 23, 2017
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Effective Interviewing Through Storytelling

Tons of resources exist for how to deal with the coding portion of technical interviews, but very few exist in order to help people deal with the question of "Tell me about this project you worked on".

In this talk, I'll discuss how we can use storytelling as a framework to answer questions about technical projects you've worked on.

maltzj

March 23, 2017
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  1. Hi! I’m Maltz! • Full-Stack at Yelp Eat24 • Previously:

    Yelp Consumer App • Have done 100s of interviews • Big fan of cheesy grins
  2. What Do You Do When Someone Asks? What did you

    build in your systems programming class? Teach me your favorite data structure. What did you work on at your last job?
  3. Stories Aren’t Just For Fires and Books • Why I

    joined Yelp? • What did you do last weekend? • That last thing you built for class?
  4. What’s The Structure Here? • Setting - Animal Kingdom is

    having a race • Character Introduction - Tortoise and the hare step up to the starting line
  5. What’s The Structure Here? • Setting - Animal Kingdom is

    having a race • Character Introduction - Tortoise and the hare step up to the starting line • Actions - Hare gets ahead and takes a nap
  6. What’s The Structure Here? • Setting - Animal Kingdom is

    having a race • Character Introduction - Tortoise and the hare step up to the starting line • Actions - Hare gets ahead and takes a nap • Resolution - Tortoise gets ahead and wins
  7. How Do These Apply To Projects? • Setting • Character

    Introduction • Actions • Resolution
  8. How Do These Apply To Projects • Setting ✅ •

    Character Introduction • Actions • Resolution
  9. How Do These Apply To Projects • Setting ✅ •

    Character Introduction ✅ • Actions • Resolution
  10. Answer 5 Questions • What was the problem? • Where

    did you think the bug existed? • How did you instrument code to find if you were right? • What was the final problem? • How did you fix it?
  11. How Do These Apply To Projects • Setting ✅ •

    Character Introduction ✅ • Actions ✅ • Resolution
  12. How Do These Apply To Projects? • Setting ✅ •

    Character Introduction ✅ • Actions ✅ • Resolution ✅