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1. Don't schedule your driving test right before lunch. 2. Don't schedule your driving test on a Friday afternoon. 3. Don't schedule your driving test on your birthday.
The first two were about not getting the interviewer at a time when they really have somewhere else they want to be. The last one was because it sucks if you schedule it on your sixteenth birthday and fail.
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Some additional points since i'm currently interviewing a lot -Practice leetcode since it will make up 50-60% of the interview process -Study your resume inside and out, know the whys of what you did not just the whats -Don't talk too much, sometimes nervousness and anxiety can make itself with a candidate talking too much or too little, both are bad, be concise with your answers but don't ramble on, the more you ram…
"-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
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Some additional points since i'm currently interviewing a lot -Practice leetcode since it will make up 50-60% of the interview process -Study your resume inside and out, know the whys of what you did not just the whats -Don't talk too much, sometimes nervousness and anxiety can make itself with a candidate talking too much or too little, both are bad, be concise with your answers but don't ramble on, the more you ram…
> Practice leetcode since it will make up 50-60% of the interview process I think this depends on the role. I was interviewing for staff level front end roles a few months ago and didn’t have a single leetcode-style interview. All the coding questions were realistic problems.
Great ideas, they don’t work. 1. Mornings only is impossible because a lot of interviewer availability is in the afternoon since for a lot of them, it’s an unproductive task 2. Batching sounds good, but doesn’t work because different companies move at different paces and you almost always can’t batch them. You’d be lucky if you could batch 2 onsites back to back. 3. You may not be able to batch subsequent rounds toge…
I wouldn't take 1 too seriously anyway. There's some evidence for instance that judges are harsher before lunch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_judge_effect .
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They're actionable advice was: "getting and applying professional feedback for one's interview skills has a better ROI in my opinion." And I specifically addressed that: it's difficult to get any actionable interview feedback because companies tend not to supply much (if any) useful interview feedback probably due to legal concerns.
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.
I have stopped trying to impress people. I've been dropped by a company during interviews just cause I asked too many questions about what they code and how many people would be on the team. I guess they didn't like the fact that I wanted to know what to expect day one...they had some stupid dress code too. Like borderline Mad Men-esque.
The kicker was too, they were some company in rural wisconsin. Talk about a controlling corporate culture. They're lucky if they can even FIND a college educated something!
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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?
I have a side-business providing mock tech interviews with unlimited time for feedback. Contact me if you are interested (including "why is this random guy on HN qualified to provide this kind of service")
The author and others must be much more in demand than I am. I don’t find that I get to dictate interview scheduling a great deal. But then again I haven’t interviewed in a while.
I don’t know if that’s just a remote thing or what.
I get night owls generally get the short end of the stick. However, we are practically half the population. It’s a strange kind of irk to have someone tell me what hours I’m most productive at.
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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.