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Re: Interview success can depend on how you schedule interviews

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Post by elevanation » Thu, Dec 09, 2021, 4:04 PM UTC

andrewflnr wrote: post #105

JamesBarney wrote: post #33

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I don't think he was suggesting getting professional feedback from the place that just rejected you. I think he was suggesting getting feedback from doing mock interviews with friends or interview specialists.

This was my read, also.

Yes, I meant to get professional feedback from a good resource, to help one's interview skills. This can also be extended to improving one's communications skills at work.

For resources of people who might be able to help, I would include people like a mentor, hired professional, or trusted friends who are good communicators.

Re: Interview success can depend on how you schedule interviews

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Post by elevanation » Thu, Dec 09, 2021, 4:12 PM UTC

lijogdfljk wrote: post #9

elevanation wrote: post #2

While this is an interesting optimization strategy, getting and applying professional feedback for one's interview skills has a better ROI in my opinion. If you're amazing at interviews, the interviewer will remember you and want to hire you. They will even rave about you to their colleagues... "Hey, this person was awesome, we need to hire them." Accomplish that special human ability, and you don't have to worry abo…

Can you recommend how to go about this? It's the first i've heard of this strategy, and interviews are a big fear of mine. I would have assumed most of these "pay for feedback" things to be scams in one way or another. Thoughts?

For feedback, I would suggest people like a mentor, trusted friend who is a good communicator, or a paid professional resource.

Full disclosure: I provide paid professional career mentorship and coaching. Contact info is in my profile.

I know some people are opposed to hiring a paid resource, yet when I hired someone for myself, my career abilities and achievements increased much faster than before. And I still meet with a professional mentor regularly.

Of course, both the compatibility and quality of the resource matter, so by all means talk with a few people until you find the right match for you.

If CEOs, actors, athletes, and other pros hire someone to help, why shouldn't you?

Re: Interview success can depend on how you schedule interviews

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Dec 09, 2021, 4:26 PM UTC

mercutio2 wrote: post #120

DarylZero wrote: post #116

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Whether someone will ask for help at the appropriate time is really not shown by how good they are at talking in an interview. Asking for help is more about humility and willingness to look dumb, than about being gregarious or chatty or socially open.

You can categorize "humility and willingness to possibly be perceived as dumb" as non-communication skills, but in my mind they are: A) the most important indicators of likely success on the team B) very correlated with comfort in speaking If I can't get you to talk at all when you're uncomfortable, you're unlikely to tell me you don't understand in the often uncomfortable iterating on a feature process. It's possibl…

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Re: Interview success can depend on how you schedule interviews

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Post by smus » Fri, Dec 10, 2021, 8:14 AM UTC

wppick wrote: post #46

foobarian wrote: post #45

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I don't know what line of work you are in, but this is decidedly not true in mine. It's skewed toward candidates making an excellent first impression but then failing, instead of the other way around.

I can't find the original article that discussed the confirmation bias effect, but this one is close: https://www.plum.io/blog/the-issue-with-the-interview-confir...

Does this apply for technical interviews though?

Re: Interview success can depend on how you schedule interviews

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Post by greatwave1 » Fri, Dec 17, 2021, 6:11 AM UTC

strikelaserclaw wrote: post #102

greatwave1 wrote: post #95

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"-Practice leetcode since it will make up 50-60% of the interview process" I know we're on HackerNews, but this is still a very bold assumption lol

it is a solid assumption if you want to work for a big tech company.

>if you want to work for a big tech company.

There's the bold assumption haha. I'm certain that less than 5% of all job interviews use leetcode.

Even in big tech, I'd imagine the majority of interviewees (such as the product manager who wrote the original article) won't need it.