Interview tomorrow for a Principal SE at a tech company. 6YOE as a tech analyst, promoted to manager, and 5YOE client facing. Wish me luck in knocking it out, and feel free to provide any pointers! This would be a game changing role for my career.

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Emphasize the good professional relationships you you were managed to build with the customers over the years, talk about the end to end solutions and holistic approach the SE role will allow you to address. Mention traveling is NOT a problem, and good luck

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I’d say for SE, it would be good to focus on the business reason behind everything you do. I.e. we have this product that does this cool stuff, which is going to lead to person x only having to work on a task for an hour vs. a day.
It’s important to communicate the why as much as the what.

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Good luck!!

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knock ‘em dead 🥊

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All the best !! Let us know how it went!

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First round went great! They are moving me forward to meet with hiring manager

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Thank you all so much for the encouragement! Knocked out the interview and told that they would move me forward to hire! Waiting on offer letter

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Happy for you 😀

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Change of plans, unfortunately. Due to budget, the position was canceled. Thank you all for your support!

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Good luck 👍

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