Cracking the Tech Career by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

Author:Gayle Laakmann McDowell [Laakmann McDowell, Gayle]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2014-09-22T00:00:00+00:00

Try, if you can, to give some indication of good performance. Don't be defensive, though; that will be obvious and will come off as dishonest.

Being Fired

You don't need to volunteer that you were fired. But if you are explicitly asked, you can't lie.

Interviewers know that there are two sides of the story. If you claim it's not your fault that you got fired, they'll just dig elsewhere and discover the truth eventually. It's better if it comes from you.

Accept the blame, and show what you've learned from it:

“My company had expectations of my working upwards of 70 hours per week. I had a new baby at home, and I couldn't do more than 40 or 50 hours. I held on longer than I should have, but it taught me a valuable lesson about setting mutual expectations up front.”

“Honestly, it just wasn't the right fit for me. I was hired primarily off of a strong reference from a prior employer, and it ended up that they needed a very different skill set than I had. Neither I nor the company did the mutual research we should have done to see if there was a good fit. They needed someone who could do deep quantitative analysis, and this is a big weakness of mine. I kept trying to learn this, but there was too much of a gap there.”

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