My First Interview as a Self-taught Dev

Tim Wong
JavaScript in Plain English
5 min readApr 27, 2021

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First interviews are something every self-taught person will cherish because it was where a glimpse of hope emerged after months of hard work. For me, I got my first interview after six months of grinding.

Here is how my first interview went and some tips in return on how you can prepare for yours. This story, however, is not for you to avoid the mistakes I made. Don’t bother avoiding mistakes…

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Software Engineer & Writer. Enjoy reading the encapsulations that is formed in the enigma machinations of my mind.