I’m not sure why that is the case for me, it’s almost like because it’s supposed to be more of a conversation I loosen up more instead of what I usually get during my live coding interviews which is “here is the link, good luck!” then silence from the interviewer for 45 min.
I have observed in the past that I’m worried about not communicating enough and communicating too much during the live coding portions, so that is definitely an extra hoop to jump through that’s hard for me to not think about during the interview
I’m really not good at the live programming sections of interviews regardless of how much I practice. I’m already a nervous person but having someone watch me try to solve a problem just makes me forget how to think it seems.I also have a hard time with how much variance is in each interview. Sometimes it’s a question of do you know how to use this library / can you google (without using AI...