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Programming exercise during job interview (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by i_am_a_cardboard_box@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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How do you guys do it? I just had my first encounter yesterday for a data engineering job and I sincerely fucked up. My mind went completely blank, I was thinking along all the wrong lines and I think I didn't even correctly understand the question, because there were all these words that I've never heard of.

How do you even prepare for something like that?

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[–] LegitimateEngineer@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’ve always hated programming exercises live during an interview. Way I dealt with it typically was taking notes about it after (so that if you see something similar in a different interview later, you can be better prepared for it). Doing various interviews coding exercises helps a little too.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 8 points 1 day ago

This is a good point. Being interviewed is a learnt skill. You get better at it by doing more of them. I always advise people to start a job search by going on a couple of interviews that you're not that interested in.