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Having gone through similar experiences as an fellow undergrad @ waterloo ('14), I wish I had read this back when I was in first year. "During your interview,
by xz_s 10y ago
Having gone through similar experiences as an fellow undergrad @ waterloo ('14), I wish I had read this back when I was in first year.
"During your interview, your interviewer is likely to be testing the limits of your ability, and not just whether you meet a certain bar. Naturally, they will pick a problem that they think they know better than you do. If they stump you, or point your mistakes, the way you react is likely more important than the fact that you made a mistake. "
I couldn't have said it better.
- turnip1979 10y agoMy last interview at Google .. the interviewer behaved like a prick. His attitude was .. oh .. u have a PhD ... let me show you how much smarter I am than you. This was very clear from the first 2 minutes of the interview. What is funny is that the area I was interviewing for is my forte and Google isn't leading there. Anyways .. it pissed me off so bad that I am saying no to future interviews. Life is too short.
- specialist 10y agoI've been interviewed by "bar raisers" who apparently have the goal of insulting you. One kept asking me the question incorrectly. Mostly because I was baffled, afterwards I googled the question. Ah, correct answer was "Naive Bayesian Classifier", like used for spam filters. Of course. Nothing about the job or my resume was related to spam filters. After much grilling, another ultimately told me that my extensible grammar that handles many dialects of SQL was trivial, because ANTLR did all the work. Unfortunately, I shot back "Ya, and my C compiler writes all my code for me."