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Re:Ask HN: Ridiculous job interview. What do I do? by spike021 on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @02:36PM (#29257833)
> Even 4x2 hour interviews is still only the equivalent of a single workday.

How many software engineers are working "hard" or to the level of 4 long whiteboarding-style problems for all eight hours of their day?

In my experience, not many.

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Re:Ask HN: Ridiculous job interview. What do I do? by PragmaticPulp on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @02:38PM (#29257858)
Likewise, those 1-2 hour interview sessions aren’t going to be hardcore coding from the second the timer starts until it ends. Some or even much of it will be two-way conversation and a chance for the candidate to get to know the team.
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Re:Ask HN: Ridiculous job interview. What do I do? by t-writescode on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @02:51PM (#29258049)
I'm beginning to wonder:

* how crazy some other company's interview loops are, if they really are coding every single one of those hours.

* if people on HN are actually on interview loops, assessing candidates.

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Re:Ask HN: Ridiculous job interview. What do I do? by spike021 on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @07:16PM (#29260655)
That's a very subjective claim. For me personally I tend to get stressed out even on simpler problems.

The best two-way conversation at least for SDE interviews IMO is the systems design one because ideally it really is just a back-and-forth conversation.

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