Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s...
by joelbluminator on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:31PM
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I can empathize. The only interviews where I think "huh, this went reasonably well" are basically online tests. Almost never when I interview in front of a person / live screen and do white boarding.
The bad news is my chances of getting into FAANG are very slim.
The good news there are tons of companies who aren't FAANG.
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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s...
by WalterSear on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:45PM
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The only interviews I have a reasonable chance of passing are take home tests. I'm a good coder, not a performing monkey.
Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s...
by joelbluminator on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:53PM
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Take homes are probably the best way to test actual coding abilities. I had a pretty good online coding test done by Microsoft actually, it was 2 hours of building an API; no trick questions, no big-o, just write a bunch of code. It wasn't easy but it felt as if they're actually testing what I do for a living. I passed it and it didn't go to the follow up - which would have probably been a shitty whiteboard interview but I'm not sure.
Now that I think about it maybe I should have gone to that interview ...