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Ask HN: Is anyone studying for technical interviews?
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Re: Ask HN: Is anyone studying for technical interviews?
#22No. If you want me for a skillset that I have then interview me on that. If you think that dumb white board questions are relevant, then there is a 50% chance that I will get it right. Your loss if I get it wrong. You know that job isn't going to be related to some algorithmic crap. (At least it doesn't waste too much of my time - compared to some pretty hefty take home tests I have done). After 15 years, there is to…
I once studied for about 48 hours (off and on) for interview at a security-related startup. After 5 rounds of interviews, not a single person asked me a single technical question. Needless to say I got caught up in the modern "study for the interview" hype - a trick I hope to not fall for again.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone studying for technical interviews?
#23Hey,
I work at Karat and we offer free mock interviews for anyone working on their technical interviewing skills: karat.io/practice
We're also always hiring interviewers. If you love interviewing and/or are looking for well-paying, remote work, shoot me an email at skik@karat.io
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone studying for technical interviews?
#24I’m super interested in creating an intensely detailed mind map of what you need to answer these tech interviews. I always hear that the interview process is broken and we need a new system etc but I would imagine we’d want our new coworkers to know how to create an array, and maybe create pointers to it and maybe adjust pointers based on a condition and given an arbitrary algo be able to apply the above skills to a…
iMindMap is a pretty good software. I am using it to build mindmap for iOS interviews.
I am also thinking of creating algo related one in future. There seems to be around 50-60ish main patterns in coding problems that are being repeated in almost all of the problems i've seen so far. If you can learn those you can use them as lego bricks to build your solutions. Interview problems have obvious constraints of time, whiteboard space and difficulty. If you master problems that fall within those constraints you can pass any interview.
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#25What position will you be interviewing for?
Software Engineer (general) and iOS Engineer
I made a service that sends you 1 iOS interview question per day. It includes both technical and experiences questions. It is still in "early alpha" and not exactly polished, but I take feedback and try to improve it.
The purpose is to get a question per day and it is up to you to see if you can answer it or not. If you cant answer it, then you've identified something to study / think about.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone studying for technical interviews?
#26I’m super interested in creating an intensely detailed mind map of what you need to answer these tech interviews. I always hear that the interview process is broken and we need a new system etc but I would imagine we’d want our new coworkers to know how to create an array, and maybe create pointers to it and maybe adjust pointers based on a condition and given an arbitrary algo be able to apply the above skills to a…
I can’t really help much, but would be interested in such a map.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone studying for technical interviews?
#27I’m super interested in creating an intensely detailed mind map of what you need to answer these tech interviews. I always hear that the interview process is broken and we need a new system etc but I would imagine we’d want our new coworkers to know how to create an array, and maybe create pointers to it and maybe adjust pointers based on a condition and given an arbitrary algo be able to apply the above skills to a…
yes! email me -- arjun@nyclabs.co
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone studying for technical interviews?
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Software Engineer (general) and iOS Engineer
I made a service that sends you 1 iOS interview question per day. It includes both technical and experiences questions. It is still in "early alpha" and not exactly polished, but I take feedback and try to improve it. http://interviewq.io/ The purpose is to get a question per day and it is up to you to see if you can answer it or not. If you cant answer it, then you've identified something to study / think about.
Signed up. Cool idea!