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I failed at FizzBuzz in a coding interview, my first coding interview in fact. It wasn’t because I don’t know what modulo is or couldn’t forgive out the core lo
by reilly3000 7y ago
I failed at FizzBuzz in a coding interview, my first coding interview in fact. It wasn’t because I don’t know what modulo is or couldn’t forgive out the core logic... I just completely choked and my mind went blank. I made a function using a switch operator, but I couldn’t figure out how to do a for loop or apply. Hot Shame!
I work well under pressure. I generally have no issues with speaking in public or performing; I majored in music in college. My programming skills have lots of room for improvement, but that hasn’t stopped me from writing lots of useful, maintainable, performant code.
It sucked to fail at FizzBuzz. I’ve been working at my algorithms and syntax, but also trying to code in front of others as much as possible.
- dpc_pw 7y agoExactly. Even when I am typing something with a friendly coworker causally looking over my shoulder, I tend to make way more mistakes then I would if I was by myself. I've been interviewing a lot of people, and it is very, very important to make them feel as comfortable and as much at ease as possible in couple of first minutes etc. Otherwise you're going to be testing their stress resistance, and not creative thinking. And it is just impossible to completely remove the stress.