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With all due respect, that sounds like a personal shortcoming to me. One can (and should) not take interviews personally. One also can (and should) be able to a
by bigstrat2003 2y ago
With all due respect, that sounds like a personal shortcoming to me. One can (and should) not take interviews personally. One also can (and should) be able to acquit oneself well at an interview even without prep time.
- yellow_lead 2y ago> One also can (and should) be able to acquit oneself well at an interview even without prep time. I don't agree. If you don't prepare at all for an interview, it shows. Aside from leetcode, it's also important to research the company. My point is mainly that I might be upset if I were in that group that's laid off today. I don't want to prep leetcode for several weeks. It feels like a waste of time.
- bigstrat2003 2y agoI've never prepared for an interview in my life, and I've never had any difficulty. Anecdotal of course, but I think prep for interviews is vastly overrated.
- rsanek 2y agoYou're telling me you maintain the ability to pass the various interviews that the modern FAANG SWE gauntlet requires year-round? Good for you if so, but this doesn't match the experience of any of the folks that I've worked with across my career.
- bigstrat2003 2y agoWho said anything about FAANG? I don't work in that world and in fact you literally could not pay me to do so. It seems miserable as hell. But Dropbox isn't in that world either. And in any case, I've never ever had to prepare for a job interview at all, let alone for multiple months. They aren't that hard in most cases.
- Manuel_D 2y agoDropbox is (or at least was) renowned for having one of the hardest software developer interview loops.