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In my current position I basically act as an techlead in a small company handling things from software architecture to functional requirements and dev ops, but also mentoring the developers.
Basically any small tech company where you got one guy running around doing almost all the stuff excluding the actual development (which I still also partially do).

I recently completely bombed an interview for an tech lead role. This was my first interview for an role that wasn't just IC.

I got several feedback points:
- I was too much all over the place
- Was talking too much, not giving them enough room to ask questions
- Didn't ask enough questions
- They didn't find I talked enough about leadership

My previous interviews were just me geeking about tech and this clearly doesn't hit the spot during interviews. I feel like I actually do plenty of the work (and beyond currently) but struggle articulating this in a manner that makes an company interested in my abilities.

So considering above what would be some good resources to learn for me to better communicate based on an non IC role.

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  • 4
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    I reflect my behavior by monitoring all my keystrokes, upload that frequently to an LLM and let it form based opinions. At the beginning it was a bit confronting but now used to it. Still, don't agree with it on certain part. Even while it has all the data and can only be objective.

    That first feedback point you got is quite confronting. You were too much over the place, was it internal interview at own company or smth? Else it's quite a statement :p A good thing of being all over the place is that you're noticed and that's actually important. I saw the best employee getting fired first once when company had a bad time just because he's a quiet person. He was just quiet because he never needed help and performed mayhem. But he also didn't flex about it. Better be flexii than not flexii.
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    I find you need to also became a sales person during interviews and know your customer. You should act differently depending on who interviews you.
    Tech interviews with leads can often be more technicaleand geeky. If they are good they will get it. Interviews with HR should usually be focused on the "human" side of things, they like to hear about presentations, team buildings and about you in general.

    Of you have a tech Interview where they don't appreciate you geeking out a bit, then you probably dodged a bullet, because a hacker knows a hacker
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    @retoor external, they were pestering me multiple times. So I decided to just do it and see where it lands. Still did my normal research of course, but someone in my network refereed them to me. So I also kind of skipped the normal process of sending an CV and my first meeting was with an developer and the CEO. (small ish company) The developer kept asking me technical questions and I literally noticed the CEO checking out half way. I was trying to steer it back to more broader leadership topics, but it was my first time as well.
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    @retoor Even the LLMs have bias ;P
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