A couple of years ago, becoming a software engineering student felt like the right call. All software engineering students had to do was enroll in an engineering program and complete a few projects to get a six figure salary.

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Floppy disks, VCRs, and the STAR format: all invented in the ‘70s, and no longer useful. There is a better way to answer interview questions, but we’ll have to hack together a solution to find it. STAR wasn’t killed by the Death Star, it was killed by the souls of the thousands of engineers who unsatisfactorily deployed it in a job interview.

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As a senior (or above senior) software engineer, you’re more likely to get down-leveled over behavioral interview questions than in a coding interview. Don’t lose

A career in software engineering is a bit of a paradox, because the further you get, the less important the act of hands-on software engineering

Get interviews in a unique way quickly and consistently. This technique has huge upside, but not many people utilize it yet.

Negotiate better: Use a Monotone voice. (Introverts everywhere celebrate?)This MIT study found the outcomes of negotiations can be predicted based on the degree of vocal variance. The folks who display more tonal variance are more likely to lose, and the ones who use less variance are more likely to win.

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