can you answer this interview question #techjobs #interviewpreparation

14 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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Taylor Desseyn walks through how to answer a common interview question about contributing to a new team. The advice: be honest about your experience level, ask about product stability concerns, and draw on examples of strong technical leaders you've worked with.

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What would you say are some biggest weaknesses of people that you see with blinders that you could share where people can maybe check themselves on this video?
One question I'll ask in an interview, if I threw you on a new team, what are some best practices that you would want your team to do to ensure success and stability of the product that you're doing? I don't know if I could answer that appropriately. Your questions are so good. The answer changes depending on the company that you're going into, and I think you should always be honest about what you know and what you feel confident. And if you haven't been a leader, But you've been on a team where you enjoyed what you were doing, it's good to reflect and kind of meditate like, hey, we had a really strong technical leader who just really guided us and gave us a lot of direction, and that made us successful.