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I can empathize. The only interviews where I think "huh, this went reasonably well" are basically online tests. Almost never when I interview in front of a pers

I can empathize. The only interviews where I think "huh, this went reasonably well" are basically online tests. Almost never when I interview in front of a person / live screen and do white boarding. The bad news is my chances of getting into FAANG are very slim. The good news there are tons of companies who aren't FAANG.

WalterSear 5y ago
The only interviews I have a reasonable chance of passing are take home tests. I'm a good coder, not a performing monkey.
- joelbluminator 5y ago
  Take homes are probably the best way to test actual coding abilities. I had a pretty good online coding test done by Microsoft actually, it was 2 hours of building an API; no trick questions, no big-o, just write a bunch of code. It wasn't easy but it felt as if they're actually testing what I do for a living. I passed it and it didn't go to the follow up - which would have probably been a shitty whiteboard interview but I'm not sure. Now that I think about it maybe I should have gone to that interview ...