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> people confuse interview anxiety on my part with lack of knowledge or experience Sounds like a bad excuse to me. If you get nervous on simple coding questio
by hasenj 11y ago
> people confuse interview anxiety on my part with lack of knowledge or experience
Sounds like a bad excuse to me.
If you get nervous on simple coding questions, how will you perform on your daily work?
Unless you're applying for a very junior position, chances are your work will involve plenty of technical discussions.
- jogjayr 11y agoBecause you don't have to write code on a whiteboard with someone staring at you in your daily work. You're free to sit alone, make a stupid off-by-one error, misspell a var without feeling like you'll be fired for it. Technical discussions at work aren't so high-stakes as ones in an interview. If you do badly in an interview, you've wasted an entire day for nothing. If you fail to speak in a technical discussion at work, best case no one notices, worst case they think "Hm. Looks like Brian didn't get much sleep last night". Just the knowledge of these stakes can affect your performance.
- jmcgough 11y agoI have pretty bad social anxiety, which is never a problem in my day-to-day work, where I know and trust the (awesome) people I work with. I'm more stressed having to meet a dozen people over a very brief period of time than I am fixing a failing production server, but I do perfectly fine at the interview as long as my anxiety isn't bad that day (by the 2nd or 3rd company I've spoken with, I start to get more comfortable with it). I'm interviewing right now and all except one have lead to offers, so no, I'm actually good at my job. I'm just a better engineer than I am an interviewee.
- taco_emoji 11y agoDid you somehow skip over the word "interview" in the phrase "interview anxiety"?