Hey, I’m working as developer 8 years, and I changed company a couple times, and it was just luck every time, I ruined 90% of tech interviews, but in regular work I can do a lot of things, like invent some solutions, learn new things very quickly, but in interviews I’m absolute loser
What can you advise me? How can I better pass job interviews?
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?
#2Practice. Use pramp.com. Do super super simple ones. If you can't do two sum or fizzbuzz or tree traversals with someone watching you, you're not going to have a prayer for harder stuff. Just start SUPER simple. Pracitce a lot.
It should be muscle memory to do the easy stuff. And then it turns out, the 'hard' questions are often just a combination of easy things.
Re: Ask HN: How do you prepare to tech interview? Any tip and tricks?
#3HelloInterview has helped me I think. Especially with system design
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#4You're not a loser, you have 8 years of development experience across multiple companies. Nailing the technical interview does not guarantee you get the job. As you mentioned, luck does play a factor and being hard on yourself for not passing an interview is time better spent preparing for the next one.
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#5claude and ChatGpt are your best friends, ask them to act like "the company and the position u r going to interview for" and take ur interview.
Re: Ask HN: How do you prepare to tech interview? Any tip and tricks?
#6Practice. Use pramp.com. Do super super simple ones. If you can't do two sum or fizzbuzz or tree traversals with someone watching you, you're not going to have a prayer for harder stuff. Just start SUPER simple. Pracitce a lot. It should be muscle memory to do the easy stuff. And then it turns out, the 'hard' questions are often just a combination of easy things.
Thank you for your reply. I trained some easy stuff of course, but it’s like arms race, I repeat leetcode things, they ask me system design, I repeat that, they ask how v8 engine works under the hood, it’s absolutely insane
Re: Ask HN: How do you prepare to tech interview? Any tip and tricks?
#7HelloInterview has helped me I think. Especially with system design
Thank you system design a real pain in ass
Re: Ask HN: How do you prepare to tech interview? Any tip and tricks?
#8claude and ChatGpt are your best friends, ask them to act like "the company and the position u r going to interview for" and take ur interview.
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
Re: Ask HN: How do you prepare to tech interview? Any tip and tricks?
#9You're not a loser, you have 8 years of development experience across multiple companies. Nailing the technical interview does not guarantee you get the job. As you mentioned, luck does play a factor and being hard on yourself for not passing an interview is time better spent preparing for the next one.
Thank you for your support, but sometimes I think that working and pass interviews absolutely orthogonal skills
Re: Ask HN: How do you prepare to tech interview? Any tip and tricks?
#10Practice. Use pramp.com. Do super super simple ones. If you can't do two sum or fizzbuzz or tree traversals with someone watching you, you're not going to have a prayer for harder stuff. Just start SUPER simple. Pracitce a lot. It should be muscle memory to do the easy stuff. And then it turns out, the 'hard' questions are often just a combination of easy things.
Thank you for your reply. I trained some easy stuff of course, but it’s like arms race, I repeat leetcode things, they ask me system design, I repeat that, they ask how v8 engine works under the hood, it’s absolutely insane
Yes but with pramp.com you can get real feedback. Sometimes it's not answering wrong, it's cause your communication sucks. Or maybe you're coming across pompous. or maybe too timid. Or maybe you have glaring bugs for certain things. I dunno. You need honest brutal feedback that is actionable.