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You’ll need to get up to speed with modern interviewing practices. Unless you know someone - people don’t care what you’ve done. They care about how you perform
by bradlys 5y ago
You’ll need to get up to speed with modern interviewing practices. Unless you know someone - people don’t care what you’ve done. They care about how you perform in the interview.
True with most of the top paying companies. I’d suggest doing a 100 problems on LC (try the subject study guides first) before interviewing again.
Doesn’t sound fun but that’s how it is now. The bar is high for all candidates - at least for top paying companies. Haven’t seen one yet that lets you skip the bs unless you know someone high up.
- champagnois 5y agoLC?
- artificial 5y agoLeetCode
- kjksf 5y agoI second that. LC is https://leetcode.com/ https://leetcode.com/ There are other similar websites for practicing interview questions. The important thing is to use at least one of them.
- therealdavesky 5y agoI spent 6 weeks doing Leetcode problems, mostly medium-level ones. However when the take-home project was assigned, my submittal crashed on their end, even though it ran on my end on two different simulators and my phone! That pretty much canned my application there and then, even though the engineer agreed with me that the crash was VERY weird... it involved iOS crashing while adding a valid string to a Set, which was non-null! Given the opportunity, I could have quickly changed the Set usage to an Array, but that wasn't put on the table. In other words, a real-world fix didn't make sense to them!
- gopher_space 5y ago> people don’t care what you’ve done. They care about how you perform in the interview. I think OP is expecting a level of competence from interviewers that simply doesn’t exist anymore. He’s from a time when the initial conversation would be engineers only and absolutely focused on past projects.
- mavelikara 5y ago> I think OP is expecting a level of competence from interviewers that simply doesn’t exist anymore. No. OP has not realized that the job market has plenty of charlatans who can talk well, but can't do the job.
- gopher_space 5y agoThat’s why you need competent interviews. Charlatans don’t make it past engineers.
- mavelikara 5y ago> Charlatans don’t make it past engineers. There is plenty of evidence that this just isn't true.
- gopher_space 5y agoJust ask someone to apply claimed knowledge to a novel situation. You can’t bullshit your way through that with someone who does work sitting in the room.
- bradknowles 5y agoWith respect, most of the charlatans I’ve seen over the years have been the people conducting the interviews. Fortunately, that hasn’t always been the case, otherwise I wouldn’t be in the job I am today. But that does seem to be the exception rather than the rule.
- kamaal 5y ago