I had an onsite interview with Uber. One guy asked me a question before I finish thinking he gives a hint I didn't want. When I am writing code, he stops my flow to improve it. He points issues before I get a chance to test my code. At the end of the interview he asks if I liked his question. What did he hope to learn from this interview if he doesn't let me solve it on my own ? It sounded more like he wanted to test out a new question on me.
Sounds more like he used a technical question to test a behavioral aspect of yours. Depending on how much you accommodated his hint and comments, you did well or not. Good luck.
This seems too generous an interpretation of the interviewer's intent. Hanlon's razor.
Interviewer was watching with laptop . Totally not interested from 1st min (not uber)
There’s no such thing as a ‘bad interviewer’.
Newbee interviewers 👦🏻
Another way to look at it: do you think out loud before writing your solution? Have you reached agreement before code writing?
As interviewer i stepped in to give a hint when the candidate kept on being silent for > 10 minutes. Sometimes interviewer does not care much giving first hint, the point is how flexible the candidate receive and share thoughts based on the hint. Why this is important? We used to have a coworker who can only think linearly (his solution) and slow to adapt to other idea. Often times he became passive aggressive or slowing everyone down - because we have to explain slowly in detail
There are very few ‘good ‘ interviewers to be honest
True, but most are mediocre. OP might have come across a particularly inexperienced one.
Lots of luck is involved in this process 😊. I had very bad experience with ‘shadow ‘ interviewer. If I solve main interviewer ‘s question shadow interviewer purposely raises bar when his task is to just understand process and take notes. They want to convince you that they can make problems way more complex and you cannot meet the bars
Don't get into conclusion before you see the results, sometimes these interviewers would just give you a hire / strong hire since they literally got no signal from the interview section.
Had similar experience in phone screening. I was not being able to think at all because of frequent interruptions. Also, I asked a clarifying question but he gave wrong response. So, his hints were not making sense. After about 25-30 minutes it was clear that his answer to my assumption was wrong!
wow that sucks
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Sounds like a new interviewer?
Agreed. Sounds like the interviewer himself was a bit anxious.
He was quite young. Surely they Shadow and get training before doing interviews ?