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I dread interviews. I am an engineering manager, a product guy and have a long track record of finding creative solutions to problems, convincing leadership at
by yalogin 5y ago
I dread interviews. I am an engineering manager, a product guy and have a long track record of finding creative solutions to problems, convincing leadership at all levels and executing on it. However, I suck at coding and coming up with solutions on the fly. I need that extra time to think through because I don't have every possible tech solution in my TLB buffers, I need to page them from main memory or even disk sometimes. So I end up failing interviews by default, so much that I stopped trying to move. It helps that I am doing quite well in my current role and am happy, but missing out on growth up the ladder.
- onos 5y agoSame here, in that I’m relatively good at slow thinking - pondering something over many days or weeks etc till I find a good solution. I see prep for interviews as table stakes, and accept it as such. but I still regret that my slow thinking strength can shine in these contexts.