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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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[โ€“] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 3 points 23 hours ago

You prepare for these by doing specific exercises for them, sad as it may seem.

Leetcoding problems? You grind them out for a month or two to prepare for doing them during interview loops.

Mock interviews can help too, to get you better at handling the stress. You can use services/groups for these, or just go interview for random places you're not necessarily planning to actually say yes to.