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It's probably worth talking about how radically different the typical orchestral audition process actually is though. You'll typically be told a large list of e
by AlotOfReading 3y ago
It's probably worth talking about how radically different the typical orchestral audition process actually is though. You'll typically be told a large list of excerpts to practice weeks ahead of time. Some places may have you submit recorded samples ahead of time for screening, others you just show up. The day of, you'll be given a definitive list of "problems" and 30m+ to warm up/practice those problems before each of the rounds.
Sight reading the way coding challenges are done is sometimes listed as a requirement, but extremely rare in practice according to my orchestral neighbors.
- gorgoiler 3y agoThe analogy was a bit hokey but this added a lot more to it, as a concept. Thank you. For coding interviews I do require that my recruiter tells the candidate pretty much exactly the way the day will pan out. If a candidate ever arrived and was surprised to be given a leetcode (lite!) challenge then something would have gone horribly wrong. An interview without signal is a waste of everyone’s time.
- AlotOfReading 3y agoThe point I was trying to highlight is that "instrumental interviews" rely on the interviewee having seen and practiced the exact problems being tested before ever entering the interview room. It's a fundamentally different thing being tested from coding interviews, where the candidate won't even know the "genre" they're being tested on, let alone have spent time with the questions beforehand.