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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by mpalczewski on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @02:21PM (#23849395)
My experience has been quite opposite.

I worked for a FANG and conducted over 100 interviews. Most of that time I thought I was asking really hard questions and wasn't sure I would have been able to answer them if I hadn't seen the question before.

I later interviewed at a different FANG, surprised myself and answered harder questions than I typically gave and answered them better than most of the people we hired.

Not sure what to make of that.

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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by Apocryphon on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @02:27PM (#23849483)
Looks like being an interviewer taught you a thing or two about the test content.
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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by onepointsixC on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:54PM (#23852564)
That sounds like when you spend a lot of time exposed to and walking through certain types of problems led you to getting good at solving those types of problems.
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