Suggest an editImprove this articleRefine the answer for “Where do you see yourself in two or three years”. Your changes go to moderation before they’re published.Approval requiredContentWhat you’re changing🇺🇸EN🇺🇦UAPreviewTitle (EN)Short answer (EN)**Show self-awareness, describe your direction of growth and tie it to being useful to the company.** The strongest form is that you want to grow through contributing to the product. Both "I do not know" and "in your job" lose.Shown above the full answer for quick recall.Answer (EN)Image**Show self-awareness, describe your direction of growth and tie it to being useful to the company.** Three steps, none of them spare. ## Theory ### TL;DR - Step 1: self-awareness, you know where you are going and why. - Step 2: the direction of growth, technical, product or leadership. - Step 3: the tie to the product, you grow by contributing. - "I do not know" reads as having no plans. - "In your job" sounds like a threat rather than an ambition. ### An example answer > In two or three years I see myself as a strong engineer who does not just write code but shapes the architecture and influences product quality. > I want to develop towards architecture and systems thinking: understanding performance, UX and scalability more deeply, and taking part in designing solutions rather than only implementing them. > I also want to be part of growing the team: mentoring junior developers, sharing what I know, helping establish better practices. > Overall the goal is to become someone the team can lean on technically and trust with hard problems. ### How to strengthen it - "I want to develop towards architecture, so I can design solutions from scratch." - "I am interested in owning not just my code but a technical direction of the product." - "I want to be the person who helps the team get stronger." ### Common mistakes - "I do not know, we will see": reads as having no plans. - "I want your job": sounds like a threat rather than an ambition. - A plan with obviously nothing to do with this role. - Promising to become a manager when you are applying for a purely engineering role.For the reviewerNote to the moderator (optional)Visible only to the moderator. Helps review go faster.