New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Failing interviews for mid-level SWE in UK, advice please
Ask HN: Failing interviews for mid-level SWE in UK, advice please 2 by mjb8086 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've a background mostly in ASP.NET full stack software development. I'm very hands on, like to tinker at different things and can learn fast. *Employment History* My employment history is like this: Placement year 2018, worked for the full term + summer, graduated 2020, did backend dev in Python at Company A for 7 months, then full stack ASP.NET at company B for 2.5 years, then co-founded my own company and was the sole developer on our software platform, did all the cloud infra in Azure too. That lasted for another 2.5 or so years. This gives me approx. 7 years of professional software development experience. In May 2025 the company wasn't in a strong financial position, and I started to hunt for jobs. We limped along while I polished it for a launch in September 2025. The site wasn't the success we were hoping. We closed it in February. Despite that, I did l...