> I completely froze on a phone interview once.
Ah, the memories come rushing back. I once froze in an interview, and force myself to blather something inane so that the phone wouldn't be silent. It went horribly.
I called back later that day or the next (it's been a long time), and basically said "that's not me. I know what I'm doing!" We had a conversation about the subject that I botched. It went well in part because I had already accepted that I'd lost that job; I just didn't want to leave an impression anywhere that I was a loon.
I got that job.
Re:Hiring without whiteboards
by adrianratnapala on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @02:07PM
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That was a warm up question?
Had they not heard of Fizzbuzz? Or reversing a string?
I'm a senior engineer with a ton of experience, and it was an interview for a challenging role at a major; I've come to expect that sort of thing on warm-up. It's a bozo filter before the real questions, and I should have been able to do it in my sleep.
The painful part is, I used to teach CS-101 and CS-102. I assigned that exact problem to my students and have graded several hundred solutions to it.
Now I warm up on lots and lots of coding problems before I start an interview process, but I always worry in the back of my head that I'll freeze again.