Interview anxiety!

Mar 18, 2021 39 Comments

I been having interviews lately. Specially virtual on-sites. Most of the times I’m fine but today something crazy happen.

I was in a coding round and the question was kind of difficult (DFS with adjacency list) and I was struggling to put together the list and coming up with the result. Half way through the interview I started to get really nervous because I just didn’t know how to approach the problem. Then I started with the cold sweat and dizziness and I couldn’t concentrate anymore. I ended up throwing up while in the interview. I had really low blood pressure. So the interviewer saw me throwing up in the floor. I asked for a minute to grab some water. When I came back I asked the interviewer if we could finish with the interview because I wasn’t feeling well.

What happen? I just put too much pressure on me to solve the problem and my mind went blank. I probably didn’t get it, but I tried.

How do you handle anxiety while interviewing?

#swe #interviews #engineering #engineer

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