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title: "More \"What Companies Really Mean\""
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description: "when they ask \"Why should we hire you?\""
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tags: []
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I recently stumbled across a phenomenal small article entitled
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[What Startups Really Mean By "Why Should We Hire You?"](https://angel.co/blog/what-startups-really-mean-by-why-should-we-hire-you).
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Having been interviewed by smaller companies (though not exactly startups),
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the questions and subtexts are the same. There's often a question behind
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the question that you're actually trying to answer, and I wish I
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spotted the nuance earlier in my career.
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Let me also make note of one more question/euphemism I've come across:
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# How do you feel about Production Support?
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**Translation**: *We're a fairly small team, and when things break on an evening/weekend/Christmas Day,
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can we call on you to be there?*
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I've met decidedly few people in my life who truly enjoy the "ops" side of "devops".
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They're incredibly good at taking an impossible problem, pre-existing knowledge of
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arcane arts, and turning that into a functioning system at the end. And if they all
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left for lunch, we probably wouldn't make it out the door before the zombie apocalypse.
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Larger organizations (in my experience, 500+ person organizations) have the luxury
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of hiring people who either enjoy that, or play along nicely enough that our systems
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keep working.
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Small teams have no such luck. If you're interviewing at a small company, especially as a
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"data scientist" or other somesuch position, be aware that systems can and do spontaneously
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combust at the most inopportune moments.
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**Terrible-but-popular answers include**: *It's a part of the job, and I'm happy to contribute.*
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