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It depends on the type of technical interview. If it's the sort of drivel that HR throws at coders then the less in the world the better. There are circumstance
by Smerity 16y ago
It depends on the type of technical interview. If it's the sort of drivel that HR throws at coders then the less in the world the better. There are circumstances where this would be beneficial however. For my Google internship interview I searched for examples of the questions they'd ask both to put myself at ease and also to practice.
I didn't go searching for questions so I could recite the answer during the interview, but instead to instead give myself a mental warmup. It's akin to sports people stretching before they run a race.
Whether the questions themselves are indicative of strong future performance is another question entirely, but at the very least I do enjoy the majority of Google's interview questions. Analytical and algorithmic puzzles are entertaining and I think it's those sorts of people that Google are filtering for.
- kstenerud 16y agoSide note, but stretching before exercise increases the chance of injury. http://sportsmedicine.about.com/cs/flexibility/a/aa022102a.htm http://sportsmedicine.about.com/cs/flexibility/a/aa022102a.h...
- lukeschlather 16y agoThat article is way too vague to be of any use. There are a handful of small studies that show less-than-optimal results for pre-exercise stretching when we're talking about running. Soccer, basketball, dancing, weight lifting, rock climbing, none of these have anything to do with those results, and you should talk to people who have been doing the activity for years about how to be healthy, not about.com.
- kstenerud 16y agoI was wrong; there hasn't yet been a causal relationship established between pre-exercise stretching and increased injury (though some studies do suggest such a relationship). The studies do agree in general, however, that stretching before exercise does NOT reduce the chance of injury. Some scientific articles this time: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=stretching+injuries+studies&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=stretching+injuries+stud...