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Interesting data, though basically all the data shown is about passing the phone screen. That technical skills don't help you much there, I'm not very surprised
by lucb1e 6y ago
Interesting data, though basically all the data shown is about passing the phone screen. That technical skills don't help you much there, I'm not very surprised. Whether it gets you hired is what I'd be more interested in, even though this is already useful information. Interviewing really seems to be a skill of its own, the phone screen part if nothing else, rather than that you're selling your technical prowess.
- egfx 6y agoI don’t know about you but I’m able to pass the initial phone screens of most companies including every “FAANG”. It’s the technical interview portion which is the trap. You are expected to think on the fly while being scrutinized by someone who doesn’t want to be there and who’s seen failure after failure and fully expects you to fail too. Meanwhile they have all the right answers to the questions while you’re floundering around. All this undue pressure and your then expected to solve some esoteric question and put it in the form of an algorithm. If you’re able to do this than at this stage you’re well on your way to actually landing the job.
- ibn-python 6y agoIsn’t that what a phone screen is like too? I’ve gotten some unexpected leetcode hards which without having have seen something similar before are difficult to solve “fresh”.