3 ms·
Maybe I'm an outlier, but I cannot talk proficiently about a project I haven't worked on in months. When it's in my brain, I am living and breathing it, but af
by daenz 12y ago
Maybe I'm an outlier, but I cannot talk proficiently about a project I haven't worked on in months. When it's in my brain, I am living and breathing it, but afterwards if I'm asked to talk about it, it stumbles out as I try to recall the pieces. I can rehearse beforehand, but it becomes clear as soon as the interviewer does any digging, that I don't remember the details.
Ask me to code something beforehand and I'll excel at it, but ask me "what's going through your mind" as I'm coding it and I'll sound like a scatterbrain. I need time, low pressure, and privacy to code well.
- mattm 12y agoSame here. In fact I just had an interview today where I completely stumbled through explaining what I did.
- mcovey 12y ago>I need time, low pressure, and privacy to code well. Me too. I've had jobs where I had to work in areas with high foot traffic, lots of distractions, I could never get in "the zone" and never got any real work done. Well, looking back, I did get some work done, but I always felt like I was too distracted to focus, and it definitely took me a lot longer than it would have otherwise.