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This is fairly common, many people describe exams to be among the more stressful events in their lives. Interviews are always exams, whether it's writing code
by orangecat 9y ago
This is fairly common, many people describe exams to be among the more stressful events in their lives.
Interviews are always exams, whether it's writing code on a whiteboard or trying to figure out what the interviewer wants to hear about where you see yourself in 5 years.
- geebee 9y agoIn a way, yes. But by blurring this distinction, you make it impossible to distinguish between an hour at the whiteboard solving a data structures problem, and an hour answering questions like "tell me about a time you overcame a challenge and what you learned". Because people outside our field experience interviews in the second way more often, I think they don't fully understand what goes on in google style interviews. This is why I would call what we go through "Exam-style interviews", drawing a distinction between the two - even though I agree with you that they have elements in common.