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Re: Show HN: Free, anonymous coding interview practice

#31

This looks great. These days I skip all interviews which require me to code in the interview. I have plenty of open source code, if they cannot figure how good I am looking at, then they definitely cannot figure how good I am with a 3 hour coding interview. IMO, coding interviews is like public speaking. Many people get nervous in front of a crowd. It's a skill one has to obtain should it be required. Coding intervie…

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Re: Show HN: Free, anonymous coding interview practice

#32
Pretty cool idea; instantly signed up.

I was thinking about posting "Ask HN: Interview me" since I don't have many interview opportunities in my corner of the world and wanted to find out how good you guys think I am.

If anyone wants to test out their interview skills with me, we could set up a meet over at talky.io and discuss some C# or js. Mail address is in my profile.

Re: Show HN: Free, anonymous coding interview practice

#36
I'm very scared of interviewing. I'm 29 and actually never got a job by interviewing and only had 1 interview in my life. It was kinda awful and the lady that interviewed me explained me how I was failing, which I understood but can't improve just by will alone. I also have big troubles on how oral communication implies a deadline (answer quickly or look bad)... I enjoy emails much more than the phone

She said I had to sell my skills much more, instead of strictly answering questions and then waiting for the next one in silence. I felt like a sociopath with no people skills.. I'm kinda shy guy that doesn't do well with strangers, or bigger groups. From my readings online, this is very common with anxious people or introverts.

In the interview there wasn't a group but there was the "this person can control my destiny" pressure, which is also irrational (you can always get another job).

Another things that affects me is impostor syndrome: selling myself feels like lying.

Also the crap unanswerable questions like "What's your biggest flaw?"

So this could actually be very good for me :)

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