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This is great advice. I just went through a ton of interviews for my next job. I got phone screens on all of them, but only offers from about half. I studied
by steven2012 11y ago
This is great advice. I just went through a ton of interviews for my next job. I got phone screens on all of them, but only offers from about half. I studied one way for all of them, and there's only so much material you can prepare for.
A couple of the interviews I blew because I was completely unprepared for graph questions, since I've never used a graph in 20+ years of programming, so there's no point in faking like I knew how just to get a job. As well, one interview I was asked a very tough bit manipulation, which I completely flunked. Another interview I bombed because my interviewer didn't know C/C++, and although he said I could program in any language, it was obvious he couldn't understand what I did, and had no confidence that my solution worked, even though it did.
I did learn, however, that using C/C++ in interviews these days is problem, because most interviews now expect you to run these on the fly, or they ask questions that expect you to use built-in libraries that other languages already have. I was asked at a couple of interviews to parse a CSV file, and that was a huge problem in C/C++ that would have been handled in a single line of code with python. Lesson learned, the nature of the questions are changing and I need to adapt to it. Next time around, I will need to master python and use that.
- rosege 11y agomaybe even powershell? import-csv