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Ask HN: How do you prepare to tech interview? Any tip and tricks?

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Re: Ask HN: How do you prepare to tech interview? Any tip and tricks?

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Yeah, it’s a big problem, thinking and speaking for me 2 separate processes, and I can express this signals from brain as a code, but when I start verbalising it, it blocks ability to write

You have to actually practice the skill of communicating while solving a problem.

I become a programmer for decreasing communication, but unfortunately you are right

Re: Ask HN: How do you prepare to tech interview? Any tip and tricks?

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Thank you, I tried acting like this but I should do it in infinite loop, for being in a good shape, or I forget all this stuff in a week

Some people's brains don't work the way that people who set up interviews think. If they require memorizing, they don't end up hiring those people (except strangely in upper management, where utterly different signals are looked for).

Yes, It’s very hard to recall something under pressure

Re: Ask HN: How do you prepare to tech interview? Any tip and tricks?

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Hate to say it because it is cliche but just a lot of practice. Find out the kind of interviews you are doing using levels.fyi, glassdoor.com, etc. or ask the recruiter. Then find online material to practice (or LLM - my last interview was pre good LLMs so didn't do much with AI but this time I would).

Re: Ask HN: How do you prepare to tech interview? Any tip and tricks?

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Tech interviews have little (and less and less) to do with actual job performance these days.

Unfortunately, there also doesn’t seem to be an obviously better scalable way to assess candidates. So at some point the practical answer is to treat interviews as their own game and practice for that game. More LeetCode won't make you a better engineer, but it probably makes you better at passing the interviews.

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