Seems like a canon event for us 10 year old seniors, it's a very humbling experience!! I had the SAME situation as you did and I've been hitting myself since last year because I did so badly in the interview hahaha

But don't worry, this means that the universe is redirecting us and telling us this ain't it!! Something better is looming on the horizon, we're just too focused on the road ahead to see it ;3

Quick tip:

Coding interviews aren't about having the perfect solution of perfect code. It's true that you don't use an IDE, but that's because it doesn't matter if your code doesn't even compile! As long as your general train of thought is in the right place, you will be fine! You need to be really communicative, mention everything you can think of, ask for feedback on different possible solutions you can come up with, even before writing anything down.

Also, the worse part of interviews in my opinion, is that you are kind of at the mercy of your interviewer, of course they are not your enemy, but people are different. I managed to land 2 internships at FAANG during college out of 3 attempts. 2 of my interview processes were incredibly straightforward and I actually enjoyed it a lot. The other one however... let's just say my interviewer felt like he wasn't as experienced as the others, I was basically leading the interview myself... So yeah, if you have a bad experience, keep in mind that an interview takes 2, so don't blame it all on yourself.

Keep trying and you will get it!

I had same feelings, having 20 years of experience, that sometimes they are not checking you but rather try to show you how poor programmer you are, but after few interviews You will get used to it.

The sad thing is that I had situations when I talked with people having less knowledge than me, and they reject me with reason "lack of knowledge", like in situation when people I speak with, wanted to hear their preferred solution which I know is wrong, and will fail soon in large scale. Also I had situations where person wanted to hear some specific sentence, like on exam, and any other form was unacceptable. Then I had not so fun situation, that I received a response with explanation "lack of knowledge in .... blah blah area...", but we not even talked about that. Person which I speak to, confused me with someone, but after rejection, nobody wanted to talk with me anymore and explain anything.

Fun fact is, that they check Your knowledge and skills in a way You never been checked, and then when You get the job, You realize that you will do exactly same s**t as usual, using 1% of your knowledge which most mid devs should be also able to do, for half of your money.

Thanks for sharing your experience! I read about a developer who had a few job interviews that went wrong because they thought I had all their 30 years of programming knowledge at their fingertips at that moment. Pretty ridiculous.

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Any tips to see the question? Or maybe usually question will be given?

I think this has been cited in other posts, but this repository helps prepare for interviews: github.com/yangshun/tech-interview...

I applied for a FAANG company, I could NOT progress to the next question then go back to the previous question. I tried. I was warned that I had to "submit my answer before going to the next question"

Trees? Ha! I wish - mine was making squares given a list of numbers that had the max area. EX: [10, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]: make 3 squares so that the sum of the areas is the greatest possible number.

FTS I'm building websites and writing SQL queries. You want mathematical problem solving - hire a mathematician.

As an aside, I worked at a company where we hired a guy who passed our Hacker Rank test with close to 100% correctness. passed on a guy who had been building responsive web apps for 2 years but only got 1 question right.

Guess who got fired after 6 months because he couldn't

• build a responsive websites to save his butt. It worked on his 28" 4K monitor but not on 1080p
• write a SQL query with a JOIN
• figure out how to NOT mutate state in the React app
• write JS code to detect when user pressed the CMD OR CTRL key
• update the background color of a div

It was that day that I learned if Hacker Rank or Leet Code actually found good engineers, then they would hire those devs and be most valuable company in the world. We would have Hacker Rank phones, running Hacker Rank OS. The best video games would be made by Hacker Rank. We wouldn't "Google" thinks, we would "Hacker Rank Search" things.

Windows? Linux? MacOS? Nah, I'd take that Hacker Rank OS cause you know it's going to be the best.

ChatGPT? Why not use Hacker Rank AI.

Yeah, Hacker Rank and Leet Code are scammers who are making money hand over fist and laughing all the way to the bank with their stolen logic puzzles