Thinking out loud
What are the thoughts about thinking out loud. I get that it is useful in phone interviews rather than silence. But it is kind of frustrating when the interviewer says to think out loud immediately after asking the question. I request for 2-3 mins and then suggested that I would think out loud, just to locate some patterns/examples in the question. But the interviewer keeps telling me to thinking out loud.
Depends on where you are interviewing. At times , the interviewer makes his judgement before even starting the interview . Then they only have 5 mins for you . As part of GC process, they have to reject some candidates and show they cannot find the right fit . There are a lot of bogus openings like that.
I had this experience in Facebook and Juniper Networks. Both times I was interviewed by 2 years experienced people. Whenever I’m interviewed by seniors, I’m kind of comfortable because they give the time and are able to guide correctly if there is a coding error.
That GC process rejections are only valid for US candidates
Start streaming bro for practice or observe streamer when they play games
10 seconds of silence and you're out
As an interviewer, complete silence is always odd, brainstorming with colleagues is part of the job, if you’re not able to verbalize your thoughts then that’s a skill you should develop. Interviewers aren’t looking for an algorithm on first thought but how or what you’re thinking about helps in getting an idea on your thought processes.
Complete silence of close to 4 mins is odd, but I just requested for 2 mins to get a pattern. I’m curious about this brainstorming thing. Wouldn’t people brainstorm after thinking about a solution at work place? Besides for a medium difficulty algorithm problem, the first 1-2 thoughts might be incorrect that can be sorted by a simple example. For instance, in a recent phone interview I was asked to provide an algorithm for vertical ordering of a binary tree, there are many ways to look at this problem. First approach that I thought of was incorrect, and it costed me some time during my interview. I knew if I had gotten more time, I would not have discussed this approach at all.
Eh, depending on the company, the interviewers do want the algorithm on the first try.