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Re:How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon by austincheney on Sunday April 30, 2017 @09:24PM (#14234901)
Maybe it is because I have a ton of code online for anybody to read that nobody wants to waste their time watching me write code on a whiteboard for hours. Sure, I will get asked to write some code in an interview but it is usally something quick and dirty just to validate thinking through a problem with a bit of pressure.

Honestly, in my experience, most application problems can be reasonably talked through without writing any code.

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Re:How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon by sanderjd on Monday May 01, 2017 @08:41PM (#14243097)
Lots of people have lots of code online. Lots of companies don't take that into consideration when interviewing.

I share your experience that most problems can be reasonably talked through without writing code, but most people here are talking about a specific kind of interview that does not work that way.

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