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When I last interviewed they sent out a huge pile of PDFs that said "think out loud" and "explain your thought process". During the interview, I explained every

When I last interviewed they sent out a huge pile of PDFs that said "think out loud" and "explain your thought process". During the interview, I explained every solution I'm not considering and why. The interviewers appear to have interpret this as 'candidate thought this would be a possible solution' and kept steering me back to the optimal solution, which I was on my way to explaining. This resulted in interview feedback that I needed some guidance. The kind of folks that can plow through hacker rank etc want to show everyone how good they are, even candidates. Google's process may result in selecting good SWEs, but it also selects for bad interviewers.

xtracto 5y ago
> When I last interviewed they sent out a huge pile of PDFs that said "think out loud" and "explain your thought process" I hated those type of interviews when I used to interview (as an interviewee) for programming positions. I am the kind of person that cannot multitask at all: I sometimes even have to close my eyes when I am thinking something before saying it. Nowadays I am on the other side being the interviewer for programming positions. I make it really clear at the beginning of the coding part: Feel free to shut up and think, focus on writing the code you'll write, and we will talk about it once you have finished.