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Recently i interviewed a guy that failed all the questions. During interview. I know he can do it. So we hired him anyway. He turns out to be really good and started contribution with in days. Corporations really needs to know what kind of problems they are trying to solve. And see if the candidate is right fit for the job.
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> I've been interviewing non-stop for six months Is this just market conditions right now? I'm guessing landing a job any time from 2010-2019 was easier?
I think it's partly market conditions, but also I think the interview process changed a lot in the past five years and I didn't change with it. There are plenty of jobs out there, but a lot of competition. One place said they received over 1,000 applications for one role.
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> I see you’ve asked similar questions to this since 2016 That's good context. And to OP's point, > I have been in the field for a few years...this field has never been my passion, just a profession I like. I've been programming professionally for 10+ years, 20+ when you add in college and what I did growing up. That, and computers are a hobby of mine, and I definitely have a passion for them, and I know a lot of stu…
> We're not a majority, but it's hard to compete with us, it's not helpful to compare yourself to us, but it's hard because that's what interviewers compare you against. This makes me so sad. I've prepped hard on leetcode for 6 years (since freshman year of college) and I haven't had much to show for it but a total compensation less than Stanford new grads despite two years of tenure. I wonder if there's any point of…
Based on nothing but these two comments I’d much rather hang out with you than I would the commenter above you. So there’s one thing you win at.
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> I see you’ve asked similar questions to this since 2016 That's good context. And to OP's point, > I have been in the field for a few years...this field has never been my passion, just a profession I like. I've been programming professionally for 10+ years, 20+ when you add in college and what I did growing up. That, and computers are a hobby of mine, and I definitely have a passion for them, and I know a lot of stu…
> We're not a majority, but it's hard to compete with us, it's not helpful to compare yourself to us, but it's hard because that's what interviewers compare you against. This makes me so sad. I've prepped hard on leetcode for 6 years (since freshman year of college) and I haven't had much to show for it but a total compensation less than Stanford new grads despite two years of tenure. I wonder if there's any point of…
If you've spent 6 years doing leetcode and you're still bad at it, then perhaps realise that such problem solving games are not for everyone. Like sudoku. I prefer the word game where you find the word in a grid and I hate crosswords.
We're all different and that's what makes us unique and interesting.
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For sure, and it’s definitely something I never would have planned or expected for myself. It was also partly influenced by COVID, and further compounded by pretty rough break up. But the funny thing is, I really feel more comfortable and confident than when I was “succeeding”. I used to feel so guilty about a one line code fix taking weeks to deploy, or I used to feel so guilty and terrible for not paying attention…
> I always felt like I was working too hard and not hard enough. Wow, you've succinctly described how I feel about my dev career spot on.
The job market is exceptionally tight right now, so don't take it personally. I doubt anybody is giving good answers to stupid questions. The quizzes and puzzles style of interviewing is terrible. Don't stress about it. Just be yourself. A good answer to most questions is, "I'd look on stack overflow and some blog posts to see what other people are doing." If they don't like it then you probably wouldn't enjoy workin…
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> We're not a majority, but it's hard to compete with us, it's not helpful to compare yourself to us, but it's hard because that's what interviewers compare you against. This makes me so sad. I've prepped hard on leetcode for 6 years (since freshman year of college) and I haven't had much to show for it but a total compensation less than Stanford new grads despite two years of tenure. I wonder if there's any point of…
Yo buddy, no need to compare yourself with others. You should compare yourself now with your past self six years ago: are you a better person now? If you've spent 6 years doing leetcode and you're still bad at it, then perhaps realise that such problem solving games are not for everyone. Like sudoku. I prefer the word game where you find the word in a grid and I hate crosswords. We're all different and that's what ma…
Kinda? I had more potential then, I could have done Facebook after sophomore year and had my career set for life. Instead I failed that interview and my career has been treading water because I had to join Amazon out of undergrad.
Its apparent that I"m not good at these things...the problem is my happiness and financial security are related to them and I'm not doing well!
With over 20 years experience in the industry, and some products I have worked on visible in SuperBowl advertisements, I can honestly say during interviews I can count to potato. Most recently during a live coding challenge I forgot to you, you know, occasionally run and test the code I was working on, and had one hour to complete. I can also anecdotally report code challenges seems to have become a lot more common i…
> I can also anecdotally report code challenges seems to have become a lot more common in interviews recently. At least these are halfway representative of the job. It's a lot better than being told you're two inches tall, in a blender, and the blender's going to turn on in five seconds, what do you do.
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Pleeeeease tell me you’ve actually been asked this question in an interview
No, but it's an apocryphal Google interview question. One of these days I'm actually going to weigh my head (another Google question). I've gotten a logic riddle that involves scissors and rope, asking what my super power would be, and favorite movie. One that was at least based in math was how many ways are there for a knight to move from the lower left hand corner of a chess board to the upper right without moving…