Fixing impostor syndrome in coding interviews
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Fixing impostor syndrome in coding interviews
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#2Thanks for the post! Original author here. Happy to answer questions here. I love talking about coding interviews!
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#3I sometimes have a similar experience reading HN, where seemingly every question receives an expertly detailed answer, regardless of topic. I have to remind myself that it's a bunch of people, each with their own (probably small) set of areas of expertise.
It's often fun to read these "oh, I can say a lot about this" posts, though.
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#4Why do people study for interviews? I feel like if I have to study for an interview, then I’m clearly not good enough for the position. Is this common in other fields of study?
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#5Why do people study for interviews? I feel like if I have to study for an interview, then I’m clearly not good enough for the position. Is this common in other fields of study?
Initially I didn't study, then I failed to land a great job that I easily would have acquired with some dedicated studying.
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#6Why do people study for interviews? I feel like if I have to study for an interview, then I’m clearly not good enough for the position. Is this common in other fields of study?
Initially I didn't study, then I failed to land a great job that I easily would have acquired with some dedicated studying.
^ This happens too too often :/
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#7Why do people study for interviews? I feel like if I have to study for an interview, then I’m clearly not good enough for the position. Is this common in other fields of study?
Sometimes its necessary to learn more of a board sense of something. Even if you've used it before.
For instance, we use Mongo DB at my place of work but, we do not take advantage of ALL the features Mongo has to offer at one time. If I were to interview at another company that also uses Mongo it might be to my benefit to dive a little deeper and look for features I may be unfamiliar with on a day to day basis.
This can be applied to all tools and languages.
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#8Why do people study for interviews? I feel like if I have to study for an interview, then I’m clearly not good enough for the position. Is this common in other fields of study?
For the same reason they dress nicely.
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#9Why do people study for interviews? I feel like if I have to study for an interview, then I’m clearly not good enough for the position. Is this common in other fields of study?
I study because of the "have to know everything" aspect of tech interviews. I rather be prepared and review/practice something I never use just in case it comes up. Might find myself reviewing JSTL because I used JSPs in 2008 for instance. Problem is the more senior I get and the more languages/frameworks I add to my toolbox the larger the scope becomes.
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#10Why do people study for interviews? I feel like if I have to study for an interview, then I’m clearly not good enough for the position. Is this common in other fields of study?
In software, it's full of the bullshit "Cracking the Coding Interview" types of questions that have very little to do with the actual job. You must study for these because you won't really learn about them in your job as they don't really have anything to do with the actual job, and still have a very high impact on wether you'll get hired at top places or not