alt Hacker NewsIf you’re in an interview, you’ve already agreed to an hour of your time talking to someone. Few technical interviewers expect their problem to be your passion. But I think it’s concerning if you can’t show interest in a specific problem and have a good technical discussion about solutions for an hour.
I don’t think I’ve ever even proffered “passion” about software development or whatever random B2B SaaS vertical the company was doing.
I show proficiency, professionalism, expertise, and the ability to bring that to a job.
I’ve had 10 jobs everything from startups, random big enterprise, and BigTech.
Am I suppose to show passion about - bill printing? Field services sending technicians to people’s houses? Railroad car repair?
Admittedly my first job as an architect was for a company that managed sending nurses to the homes of special needs kids and the next two were in the health care industry, but after that it was dealing with cloud consulting (full time jobs) first at AWS directly then other consulting companies (currently a staff architect at a 3rd party cloud company)
I can talk about technical solutions, be a post sales architect, lead implementations and do system design and coding all day long without being “passionate” about the business. It’s just professionalism and my addictions to food and shelter