I'm in a similar position. I get what I call interview fright. As soon as pen or marker touches paper or whiteboard. My mind goes blank. Literally my mind is sc

I'm in a similar position. I get what I call interview fright. As soon as pen or marker touches paper or whiteboard. My mind goes blank. Literally my mind is scrambling how do I do a loop. On the flip side I can sort of understand. I actually interviewed today. They had from what I saw 5 people interviewing today. 30 minutes a candidate, with 6 employees screening. Imagine how much source code they would have to review. In addition correlating that to a specific candidate. Interviewing is an art. I think we're still ironing out the best way. The first person a director had marked the heck out of my resume and highlighted it. He knew what he wanted to ask, yet he let me lead the conversation. When I lead interviews I asked basic syntax questions. Then what data structures you would use. Then the bulk was whatever was bothering me. I would treat the candidate like a co-worker. Come to them for a sanity check, am I insane is there a better way. I'll denote this only works if they're comfortable with you, they need to feel like your team mate. People hated me because id go over time limits.... I have been searching for the past four months. I get home I hit hacker rank or study. To say the girlfriend is unhappy is an understatement. So these coding tests, are not fun. A lot of people have trouble with them. But you can work on them. After one phone screen, the interviewer asked are you done. I said hang on a sec. I reviewed my code and added exception handling, and fixed several syntax errors. That mindfulness helped alot. Today I got to the ux ui director. They asked to see a prior project. Then engaged me about my design decisions. I essentially got a free consultation and it was amazing. I'm long winded sorry :/. I'll close with this. I do dance improv, poetry slams, and open mics. I have to practice for each. It took ages to memorize a poem, and choreograph it. The interview is your audition. You have to know their script. Know their lines. Your going for the lead role, and you have got to know how to mesh with your partner. Bust your ass, it sucks but get the role and enjoy yourself.