Ask HN: How to prepare for technical interviews?

Re:Ask HN: How to prepare for technical interviews? by mrcold on Monday March 09, 2015 @07:01AM (#9170263)

Practice. There is nothing else that can prepare you better. Assume that you will fail the first 5 interviews and use them to learn. After a while, you get the hang of it and learn how to fake it for the real thing.

And remember, you do your best when you don't care about the job. If you do care, your nervousness and desire to impress will be perceived as incompetence. And at that point, you're just sabotaging yourself.

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Re:Ask HN: How to prepare for technical interviews? by sevilo on Monday March 09, 2015 @11:25AM (#9171382)

I hear the second point all the time and I can agree with it from my personal experience, but what would be a good way to "not care"? For me, when I know I'm interviewing with a company that I'm excited about, it seems a lot harder to actually "not care" about it than just saying it.

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Re:Ask HN: How to prepare for technical interviews? by dropit_sphere on Monday March 09, 2015 @12:00PM (#9171646)

The best way to not care is to actually not care---to have another interview lined up with a company you're just as excited about.

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Re:Ask HN: How to prepare for technical interviews? by simarpreet007 on Monday March 09, 2015 @10:27AM (#9171068)

Fully agree with your second point.

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