JourneyOne Interview preparation

Update 2023/12/22

Being rejected again…

grad program for developers

• technical and consult skills
• work closely with senior software engineers
• learning tasks
  • book clubs
  • lightning talks
  • lunch & learns
  • Jibility - roadmap tool
• developer communities - Meetup
  • AWS Perth User Group
  • Digital Transformation Perth Meetup Group
• People-focused culture

Telephone Interview:

• Wenxiao, Wes
• A recent graduate at UWA, majoring in software engineering
• Software projects and research at uni,
• currently working on a volunteer project mainly using Typescript, NextJS, and TailwindCSS, the project is organised by the CFC (coder for causes) club in UWA, we use github to work on it collaboratively.
• Recently obtained a AWS cloud practitioner certification.

• Actively seeking grad and entry level SDE jobs in Perth.

• Technical skills:
  • Mainly using Python
  • Web development
    • Backend: Flask, Django, SpringBoot
    • frontend: Typescript, ReactJS, NextJS, JQuery, Vue, TailwindCSS, Bootstrap
    • Database: MySQL, SQLite, Neo4j
    • Docker: run applications in container
  • additionally:
    • Data visualisation and analysis
      • Pandas, Seaborn, NumPy, SciPy, NetworkX
    • Simulation Modelling - research
      • SimPy
    • Machine learning
      • Scikit-learn, PyTorch
• Career Aspirations:
  • Goal: become a senior-level software developer
  • learn modern programming techniques to develop my technical skills and get more certifications
    • AWS associate solution architect, further professional
    • Program offers: professional development
      • brain school
      • lightning talks
      • book clubs
        • actively attend
  • expand my network, building relationships with senior professionals and seeking mentorship
    • Developer communities - Meetup
      • AWS Perth User Group
      • Digital Transformation Perth Meetup Group

Questions:

• What kind of candidates are you looking for? What qualities do I need to possess in order to be selected?
• Learning activities for the graduate program, Is it focus on learning tech stacks using some demo projects for training purposes or solving issues in the real-world projects?
• How is performance evaluated in the graduate developer program, and how the feedbacks be provided?
• At what stages of the interview process can I get feedbacks if I failed?
  • as I’ve done several interviews like this, none of them give me a detailed feedback that tells me why I’m failed. I really want to improve myself and get a job soon.