> I don't get why everyone seems so hung up on the interview. Because if you need a job, the wild asymmetry between you and the interviewers. You have to be O

> I don't get why everyone seems so hung up on the interview. Because if you need a job, the wild asymmetry between you and the interviewers. You have to be ON for that short time and ready to deal with questions like what you got about "best vacation" or in the next question code a red-green tree implementation, followed seconds later by describing a full scale cloud architecture. All of that in an hour. And if you falter anywhere along the line, they reject you and you worry about how you will feed and clothe yourself and your family.