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Team work and individual work

Team work and individual work

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Team work and individual work

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- When you ask about their previous work, candidates want to impress you with their work and experience. Regrettably, sometimes they shade their answers to make their work look better than it really is. A typical answer in that vein would be... - We designed and wrote a completely new microservices architecture for our data layer. - Notice the emphasis on we. Now that answer might be okay. Perhaps the candidate worked on that data layer with one or two other people. But they might be trying to exaggerate their own expertise by taking credit for work they were not involved in very closely. I begin to suspect that if they are vague about exactly what they did in that area, or the vocal tone doesn't have much confidence in it. If I sense that potential problem, I'll ask, "Did you do that or did the team to that?" If they become defensive or even more vague in answer to that question, then it's a red flag for me. I feel…

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