I recently had a phone screen interview. In coderpad, the interviewer asked an extremely simple question. And when I say simple, I mean DEAD simple - stuff I could normally solve blindfolded (any programmer could). I panicked. I don’t know why. I then spent thirty minutes repeatedly failing simple tests and by the end of it I could barely utter a coherent sentence. It was with a really awesome company - Stripe. I would like to interview there again some day. But I’m wondering, if you perform THAT badly on a phone screen, will most companies ever let you interview again, or are you put on to a blacklist of some sort?
That’s just the phone screen, it gets worst when you make it on-site. Practice practice practice
Definitely agree with you there. I’ve had a few onsites/phone screens since then. Hasn’t happened again fortunately.
You'll be able to interview again in a year if they are similar to other companies. The only people who get 'blacklisted' are those who are offensive in the interview. You won't change cultural fit, but you can change coding ability
If you didn't answer and effed it up so badly , it clearly means you are overrating your skills and wasn't that dead simple at least for you as you think it is. It happens to many programmers I know . They think they are awesome but can't reverse a string for fucks sake.
Just got an offer from Facebook, and frankly that was a lot tougher. Even Facebook’s phone screen was tougher than that first (and only) question they gave me. I’m sure the stripe guy had multiple questions lined up but I could barely finish the first one. As I said, the question was really simple. I don’t think it had anything to do with skill.
Totally disagree. Stage fright can Trump any skill level, and on-the-spot problems are not a good example of real-world performance.
What was the question?
Given an array of dictionaries, return the dictionary with the lowest value for a given key. I was expecting some complex graph traversal algorithm question or something like that....and they hit me with a no brainer. It’s so simple I bet most people could do it after their first week learning to code.
Several edge cases with your dick measuring contest there bud but I like it 😂
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You're a very positive person and that's what we need more on Blind!
Most big companies let you repeat after a year, not sure about Stripe specifically.