Hey, I'm a Software Engineer with 6 years of experience and have worked with 2 companies
1. Service based startup - 1.5y
2. Product startup - 4.5y

My goal is to join a Tier-1 company or a unicorn startup where I get a good pay, learning and a great culture. In my 4.5y of experience, I haven't learned a lot at my job but kept on learning on my own.

I'm preparing for the interviews but how do I justify not having enough hands-on experience with scale from my job? I don't have side projects too

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Firstly, most of the Tier-1 companies do not care about your side projects. They have a very similar hiring pattern varying from dsa, lld, hld, culture fit.

Secondly, you know that you don’t have enough hands on experience, but they don’t know that :) So cheer up and fill your gaps.

And finally, it takes 60-90days to be unicorn/tier-1 ready depending on the effort you put on daily basis.

PS: I have been on the both side of table. interviewer / interviewee

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