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This is the most god damn cathartic thread I have read on this site after taking 1.5 years out to work on my own stuff and having failed 4 interviews getting ba
by ionwake 12y ago
This is the most god damn cathartic thread I have read on this site after taking 1.5 years out to work on my own stuff and having failed 4 interviews getting back into the workforce, with the most random god damn shit technical tests.
- Matt_Mickiewicz 12y agoI see this all the time... people who have CS Degrees, worked as programmers for 5, 6 or 7 years and then they go and start interviewing and flunk over and over again. Unfortunately, almost everybody feels overconfident and ignores our advice to prepare and practice for tech interviews: http://www.quora.com/Whats-the-best-way-to-prepare-for-a-software-engineering-job-interview http://www.quora.com/Whats-the-best-way-to-prepare-for-a-sof...
- vonmoltke 12y agoI know I have a minority opinion here, but I fell that if a technical interview is such an exceptional event that I have to put that much preparation into it, there is something wrong with the interview process.
- jarek 12y agoIf you're not the next Google, I'm not going to cram things for an interview with you. Sorry. "Competitive programming"... if I get hired, am I going to be evaluated through "competitive employment"?