Hello all,

I am job hunting. Have 20 years experience in IT. Now I am totally confused about interview been taken. Almost all interviewer expects and asks internals of respective technologies in my case Java and frameworks. And very rare about solution been design, or not even design questions.

I am into software architect role from nearly 6 years. Rarely hands on.
Also one more observation is some interviews are not inline with job description.

What are your experiences?

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In current market situation no org clearly know what they need in a candidate and hence many times it will not go inline. Keep hurting and work on some internals also make sure you get some hand-on back using AI or something to get yourself aligned with market.

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Atleast you are getting calls 😆 btw may know whats your jatti

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Ctc* got auto correct to jatti some how 😆 I was typing song “Teri Jatti” on Spotify.

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Yes . Two things I have observed. People who interviews have no idea between Software architect and Soln Architect. Mostly they work in coding domain till date with zero or low cloud skills .
System Design Rnds are too generic type typical similar as 5-6 yrs

Better try for companies like AWS or equivalent

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Most jd are Solution Architect but typically people management. Otherwise Presales

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For job in market, they feel 20yrs are too old ...they don't consider resume itself. By default they have assumption, they will not deliver or able to just... because interviewer itself for first round is less than 10yrs experience. So it is difficult to crack though have technical skills...just keep trying by staying in same company and wait for luck to work.

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My thought on this is. Every Engineering manager or Lead or Principal engineer taking your 1st n 2nd would expect you to be handson. Because they think if you know very less about coding how can you deliver poc or design solutions out of my frameworks, how can you select the best. Anybody who cannot code should be following engineering manager stream.

Above is not my perspective but whatever I am seeing in the market. I went through similar pain but I geared up myself n cracked it

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Please dm me

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CCTC?

Last they cut you off based on expected CTC. If you pass all the skills the offer you get is not worth those rounds . Hands on POC on AI is not enuf bro nowadays, irony is they want real Agentic Ai architecture pattern
Sometimes you will feel they break you rather than understanding your architectural skills . Poor interviewing skills . I had mixed reactions . Keep trying . The market is very confusing now

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