Hi I am an SDM and am looking for new jobs but I am failing constantly in my interviews, and the is the worst part I am not sure why I am failing, this is a short summary
I started looking for a new job in January, It took me a little time to update my resume and prepare and eventually line up a few interviews, I failed the first few interviews at at first or second level. Please note that I have not coded in the last 2-3 years so my coding/programming skills were rusty, so I took a 2-month break, did leet code, subscribed to the daily coding problem and updated my coding skills, I have coded all my life so it was ok, now with more confidence I applied again, to companies, A, B and C, i was able to finish my coding interview on coderpad or some other platform within 15-30mins but still got rejected and am not sure what the hell happened. Some of these rejections were a so surprised because they did not even ask the question that I was supposed to have failed, am guessing it is standard format, but why ask stuff that is not there in my resume ? or why even call me for a interview if they wanted a particular skill ? Is there some website/interview coach something who can analyze my interviews and help me understand why I failed ? In Jan when I was clearly able to see why I was failing, now I am clueless. What the hell are companies looking for ? I have a very high opinion about myself and my estimate was that I will have a new job in 3 months tops, but its been six months and I am clueless, worst part I am interviewing but my goal is one of the FAANG and Uber/Lyft. If I cannot pass this small interview what chance do I have at the FAANG companies? At one point I thought it was technical but now I am not sure, one company C, I finished my coding problem in 15 mins, and they reject me based on technical, that does not make sense to me. Another company A, I gave 3 solutions to the problem, agreed not optimal but that was based on a mathematical formula so could not figure it out. I am completely lost and I am never lost, any pointers on how to get out of this mess, I am sincerely out of ideas? Please advice
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Recently failed Snap, FB and Uber phone interview. I have 2 onsite scheduled next week. I know I am good but sometimes it needs lots of failures to reach where we want to be.
Well after each failure, I will drink a beer or two, run extra mile on treadmill and get back to routine.
hmm, how would that be ? I was given this problem
Given an array of n + 1 integers between 1 and n, find one of the duplicates.
If there are multiple possible answers, return one of the duplicates.
If there is no duplicate, return -1.
Example:
Input: [1, 2, 2, 3]
Output: 2
Input: [3, 4, 5, 4, 1]
Output: 4
Gave 3 solutions to the problem, and coded them
1)Two for loops --O(N2)
2) Hashmap search
3)Sorting the array
But the interviewer was not happy, he wanted a solution using the sum of the numbers which I was not able to figure out.
How do I improve my process, I am doing leetcode and passing them, but most interviewers are not happy?
In another case I was given https://leetcode.com/problems/best-time-to-buy-and-sell-stock/solution/ this problem which I managed to solve in 15mins, agreed not optimal solution and the interviewer asks " u know this problem" to which I replied I did but did not resolve it before, which is the truth, since this was one of the problems that I got via "Daily coding problem". He did not ask me for a better solution but just went on with more questions and rejected me.
I am trying not to take it personally but cannot help take it personally, in all cases, I need to figure out what to do to get out of this loop, am taking a 3 month break, but am worried this will keep repeating if I do not do it the right way.