[go_go_]

This is one of the reasons I'm eyeing management for long term career growth. I've learned that the problems given to sr. and jr. engineers are roughly the same, and that the interview process is biased towards jr.

[rajeshmr]

I think the same way. Mostly biased towards jr. And management seems like a good option for long term career growth.

[imjustsaying]

Isn't it a bad omen for any industry when the most realistic career advancement path is management?

[skybrian]

I think you're underestimating how hard interviewing can be for new grads. There are some that are good and others who lack the background or the confidence.

It also seems a bit weird to give senior engineers easier questions. Do you really think people get worse with experience?

[go_go_]

I think the skill set changes with experience but the problems given in interviews don't vary much. For example, a fresh grad is more likely to be able to correctly implement merge sort from memory than a sr. engineer because of how recently they were asked this problem before. Whereas a sr. engineer should be able to better think through "soft skill" problems like estimations, expectation alignment, and how to deploy complicated changes with little impact to the business.

I've come to learn coding is the easy part. Where it gets tricky is when you introduce other people.