Am I ready for a tech job? Honest signals that beat “I finished a course”
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Readiness is not a feeling. It is a small set of demonstrations: you can scope a problem, explain tradeoffs, and recover from a follow-up that pokes a hole in your first answer.
A baseline interview test run (or the job readiness challenge) gives you cold feedback about reasoning quality under time - a signal many self-taught candidates never measure until a real screen.
Add interview practice to stress-test communication: the market hires people who can think out loud, not only people who can type in silence.
If you are honest about two gaps, you can improve them in a week. If you hide ten gaps, you will feel “not ready” forever.
Topics: am I ready for tech, ready for software job, career in tech, impostor syndrome interview
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