[MUSIC] What I'd like to do next is give you an overview of what's involved in an interview application and interview process. Now, many of these terms you're probably familiar with, but I just want to make sure we're all on the same page as we're going to be referring to these terms over and over throughout the course. So at the end of this video, you should be able to describe the common components of the interviewing and application process. And you shall also recognize that there are a couple of formats for interviews, and know how to recognize which is which. So, every application process begins with resumes, and tons of resumes get sent in for a single position. You can see that my arrow here is quite large, and that just represents that there is lots and lots of resumes going in. And those resumes are going to be read by someone. Now at small companies, the person reading the resume may actually be another software engineer. It could even be the CEO depending on how small the company is. But for larger companies, it's going to be recruiters who are reading these resumes, and for really large companies, it's going to be people the recruiters hire to screen resumes. So just depends on the size of the company, who's going to read your resume. And we'll talk more in this course about tips for success in writing your resume. If your resume passes the review, it essentially means that you might be a good fit for the position. And what I'm going to then do, is send you along for a technical phone screen. And the role of the technical phone screen is to ensure that you actually match what's on the resume. So they may have pulled out some pieces from the resume that they thought were a good fit, and they're going to talk with you about them in the technical phone screen. And you might get an in-person visit. And the in-person visit, this is often a whole day affair, where you're going to meet with a whole bunch of different people, get interviewed by software engineers and potentially other people at the company, management, HR and so on. And then after you've interviewed there's going to be this, a job offer that gets sent off to a few people, and then those people may or may not accept. That begins the job, the negotiation phase about the details of the job offer. So this is essentially the whole process. Again, I just want to walk through this so that we're all clear about the terminology we're using throughout the course. So there are two different models for interviews and it's worthwhile recognizing which format of interview you're going to be going to. And it's very possible if you have multiple interviews that you may be going to one format at one company and another format at the other. So one format of interview is team-based. So you're going to interview with the people on the team that you'll ultimately be hired into. And this is great for both the people on the team and the applicant. Because you get to meet the people on your team and the team gets to meet you before any hiring decisions are made. Now, the problem that comes around with that is different hiring managers may have different standards. They may have different priorities in terms of who they hire. In a sense, you want to make sure that someone can be successful throughout their entire career, not just on the first team they're hired but on later teams as they advance. So it makes sense to have a more uniform standard of skills that you're looking for. This leads to the second model, which is that you get hired into a company. Here they have a more uniform process for what they consider the standard of acceptance and there you'll interview with various people across the company, and not people on the team you'll work with. You won't actually get paired with a team until after you got a job offer. So each of these approaches has their own pros and cons, but it's worth while recognizing which format you're going to have for the interview. In fact, you want to know which format you're going to be encountering when you start preparing for the interview. In the next video, we'll talk about how to do just that. Prepare for the interview.