I had a bad interview. I was nervous and got most things right but struggled with simple concepts due to nervousness. Make me feel better and post your most embarrassing responses to technical interview questions.
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I couldn’t implement DFS without recursion. I tried for 30 minutes. This is something I did as a homework assignment in college.
Had you leet coded before this?
Yes. Just always did DFS recursively.
I used to have major interview anxiety and froze and couldn’t speak for 5-10 minutes at a time during a final round interview. I maybe got 10 sentences out. Didn’t have this issue in the first few rounds, but my anxiety shut me down. I’m sure my interviewer felt very awkward lol
I remember you. Omg
I had a panic attack at Amazon internship onsite and literally forgot everything. I was shaking so much on the whiteboard had to stop. My next onsite will be on Clonazepam lol..
Thank god im not the only one. Ive gotten better over the years, but i know the feeling.
Can relate haha.. Nobody prepares you or the interviewer for how to handle something like this
Couldn't answer simple questions about threads and locks (which I had already used in my work and had answered very easily in on site interviews before this one). This was my 10th onsite in that many days. Had a really bad headache after the interview and I was completely blank during the interview. I had other offers already so it didn't matter but this was for a very good friend's team and it kind of felt like I let him down.
I couldn’t figure out what the initializer list syntax did in cpp. Moreover I corrected the interviewer when they used a constructor for init-ing a structure that it should be a class instead.
C++ syntax and rules are easy to mess up
And how many still got the offer?
Lol not me. But spent the next 4-5 months writing cpp and open source contribs which leveled me to the par
I was being an idiot recently and tried to get the stack growth with just a local array lmao
Which company?
Couldn't get a substring of a string (in Swift). I did it at home without thinking, but during the interview just couldn't make it work. In the end just converted the string to a character array. Managed to keep my cool and even make jokes :) Got the offer.
Tbf this is unreasonably difficult to do in swift
so is it ok to convert the string to array for substrings during interviews? or do they expect you to work with String Index methods?
I killed all my rounds with Amazon but not the bar raiser. Didn't really click with the interviewer and He was more nervous than I was as that was his first time conducting interview and he was being watched by the decision maker. I didn't have a clear mind. Tried to do list comprehension for a simple problem where I should have made a separate function. Rest of the round went downhill.
Thank yourself for not getting into this crazy shithole of a hell
You could have been PIPd
One interview I was super nervous and told them the underlying data structure of an ArrayList was a LInkedList
Lmoa 😂 😂
Wait it’s not?? I thought doubly linked list