How To Ace Your Software Engineering Interview - Part 4 (The Mental Game)
After over a year, it’s time to reboot this article series with another entry, which I’m honestly surprised I haven’t written about until now. Anyways, interviewing as a developer is one of the most mentally taxing processes you have to go through, so it’s crucial that you stay mentally healthy every step of the way. This article will break down how you can set up a sturdy, robust mental and emotional framework to keep you going through the interview slog. Let’s get right into it!
Keep Your Eyes On The (Amazing) Prize
Interviewing as a software engineer is one of the highest return on investments (ROI) any human can get on their time spent: Given that developers are paid so much compared to the rest of the market, just a few months of interviewing can increase your compensation by tens of thousands of dollars. There are very few activities that rival the ROI of interviewing for a better software engineering job, and if you’re looking for your first software job, it is literally life-changing when you succeed. The math is very much on your side during this process - Always keep this in your mind as the light at the end of your tunnel.
