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This site is amazing. I had a real problem with nerves during interviews, I did about half a dozen practice interviews on the site over about 2 or 3 months, whi

by leshow 6y ago

This site is amazing. I had a real problem with nerves during interviews, I did about half a dozen practice interviews on the site over about 2 or 3 months, while I was brushing up on algorithms and data structures in my spare time. It was great, if you have issues with interviews I recommend the site. One bit of advice though, don't just jump into a mock, make sure you prep by studying first for a few weeks.

programbreeding 6y ago
>One bit of advice though, don't just jump into a mock, make sure you prep by studying first for a few weeks Once I realized the interviews were done by real people, I realized that would be the case. I was looking around to see if that was something that could be done on their site. It looks like it isn't but I found the following in their FAQ [0]. >If you need a place to start, we heartily recommend Interview Cake [1]. There, you can work algorithmic problems at your own pace and get nice hints as you go. I wanted to post it here for anyone else wondering the same. [0] https://interviewing.io/faq https://interviewing.io/faq [1] I don't want to put the link here but the link from their FAQ does appear to be a referral link, or at least some kind of coupon code. I have absolutely no affiliation with either site but if you want to support this site then I'd recommend checking the FAQ and getting to Interview Cake through there.
leeny 6y ago
Founder here. This is so nice to hear. Thank you for sharing it.
nikhilalmeida 6y ago
I agree that the site is amazing. It is especially useful since you can take a day off and schedule multiple phone screens in a day. This enables you to get to a point to be able to line up the onsite interviews close to each other, which is what you want to do to get multiple overlapping offers. The only disadvantage is that the site did not have enough mid to senior positions and very little focus on positions for engineering manager and above.

by leshow 6y ago

programbreeding 6y ago

>One bit of advice though, don't just jump into a mock, make sure you prep by studying first for a few weeks Once I realized the interviews were done by real people, I realized that would be the case. I was looking around to see if that was something that could be done on their site. It looks like it isn't but I found the following in their FAQ [0]. >If you need a place to start, we heartily recommend Interview Cake [1]. There, you can work algorithmic problems at your own pace and get nice hints as you go. I wanted to post it here for anyone else wondering the same. [0] https://interviewing.io/faq https://interviewing.io/faq [1] I don't want to put the link here but the link from their FAQ does appear to be a referral link, or at least some kind of coupon code. I have absolutely no affiliation with either site but if you want to support this site then I'd recommend checking the FAQ and getting to Interview Cake through there.

leeny 6y ago

Founder here. This is so nice to hear. Thank you for sharing it.

nikhilalmeida 6y ago

I agree that the site is amazing. It is especially useful since you can take a day off and schedule multiple phone screens in a day. This enables you to get to a point to be able to line up the onsite interviews close to each other, which is what you want to do to get multiple overlapping offers. The only disadvantage is that the site did not have enough mid to senior positions and very little focus on positions for engineering manager and above.