L63, 7 yoe, TC~200. TLDR: My whole career I have been held back by it. Have you beaten it? How? Interview coming up computer vision / augmented reality space. It’s definitely impacted me in FAANG interviews and the like. I am a recent MSCS, have been working and studying a while and built a career I’m proud of, given many obstacles along the way. In studying over analysis was great (enjoyable but time consuming). It allowed me to find the definitive answer and feel confident to back it up. But when practicing for a big interview coming up, I get stuck on LC medium problems. My solutions gradually get there, but feel kind of scrambled and hopeless for a long time. I make notes, find out (or just worry that) I’m wrong about something, or get too involved in a fruitless solution. As a reference, this has been the same for me in the GRE analytical math section (37th percentile). In practice, I’m definitely less affected by it. Generally my superiors want me to take my time and produce something well thought out. I understand and worked with CV, real time graphics stacks, multiprocessing, etc. I understand a lot of the components for this work. Just don’t want to lose out because I get stuck on producing a good solution.
Train under pressure, introduce variables to get you out of your comfort zone. Add people, time, sound, jumping jacks, use everything you can to throw you off of your game, so when you are in the situation you are as cool as a cucumber... You got this!!!
I suffer from the same problem :( problem solving on the spot is really hard for me especially as most of my solution sets come to me when I'm about to go to sleep and am staring at the ceiling. I'm terrible at under pressure thinking
Keep practicing
Do things even if you know they are suboptimal.
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For interviews, practice speaking your train of thought out loud. Your interviewer will appreciate how you analyze the problem thoughtfully. Time-box your analysis so that after 10 minutes (or whatever is appropriate) you run with the best idea you've thought of so far. I assume your analysis paralysis is driven by a desire to optimize. Recognize that spending too much time on analysis will lead to suboptimal performance, and optimize the amount of time you choose to spend on it.