My wife has great experience and a strong resume that always gets her an interview, but is pretty bad when it comes to interviewing (mostly anxiety driven). She’s relentlessly prepared with notes, watching interviewing tips on YouTube, researching roles, doing mock interviews, etc. but when it comes down to the actual interview she just can’t think on the fly for hypothetical questions or articulate herself and her experience.
I’ve worked at multiple FAANGs and know she’s way more accomplished and would add more value than many people that have cleared the hiring bar if she could only get in!
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
TC: 350
UPDATE: she got an offer from G
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Also, your point of view is biased since it’s your wife. For all you know, she could be of subpar intelligence and so needs more preparation (ie her relentless preparation makes only a small difference).
At the other end, part of scoring these high-level jobs IS being able to stay calm and confident under pressure, and articulate yourself concisely and throughly. I think that’s the difference between not just your wife, but most candidates. The truth is, if you can make it to on-sites, you can get hired. So I agree, part of the process is a little frustrating and there’s luck involved. I’m just not sure there’s any other way; if the questions are not dynamic and catching you off guard, people can cheat their answers. I guess doing an MBA program on-site is more possible actually. You have your phone calls, your essays, test scores etc. and all that data confers a result.
Thoughts?
Most big companies have strict quotas to bring X% of Female candidates on-site for the full loop (ex: 40% of all on-site candidates must be DEI)
there is no magic incantation that she can learn that will make things better overnight. practice. leetcode. practice.
It's definitely a numbers game and she has to feel comfortable with rejection, knowing that it doesn't truly reflect her abilities. It's a feature of faang interviews that good candidates won't make the bar, but very few bad ones will. It's a numbers game and she will have to just not settle for less.