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This is super true. I was interviewing with a Startup once, and we had an initial screening, and they had a lot of work to be done with AWS, some APIs and data

This is super true. I was interviewing with a Startup once, and we had an initial screening, and they had a lot of work to be done with AWS, some APIs and data pipelines. My area of work. When we had a "technical" interview, it was completely algorithms focused. And the interviewer dropped a few anchors, which restricted my thinking, and caught me cycling. It was super obvious the call wasn't going great. Odd enough, they acknowledged, that I was one of their best candidates, and were surprised. I didn't get the offer. It was a job I knew I could've aced, but the questions they asked didn't match up to what they actually needed done :/

mixmastamyk 6y ago
Reminds me of an interview a friend got me at a Spring Boot shop. Make sure you know SB, he said. I normally do Python, so I brushed up on Java and Spring for a month beforehand and was impressed with my progress. Well, final technical interview wasn't done by him and was instead 100% SQL and database theory instead. I did decently, I got about 85% of the questions right off the top of my head. Pretty decent result for zero preparation. Well, guess what another SQL-head did better. Was a total disaster because I was unemployed at the time and staring down financial ruin.