Weirdest interview
I interviewed at a company this week, this has to be the weirdest interview I’ve seen in my life. The problem was very open ended, it’s not very obvious what he wants. So, I spent around 10mins just to make sure I get the question right. Then I talked about how I would solve it for around 5mins. Then I started coding, I was explaining my thought while I was writing on the whiteboard. Then half way throught the solution, he said there’s a better way deal with two cases, which results in merging two if statements into one. (I do agree his way is more elegant and will save around 2 lines of code, but the main idea is still the same ). Then he took away my markers and start putting code on the whiteboard and then he finished the problem himself... This is so weired, it’s like halfway through the interview the interviewee became the interviewer... Anyone else got similar experience?
Your interviewer is under qualified to be interviewing
This is the only way he knows how to become the alpha and establish dominance.
Insecure interviewer looking for validation instead of evaluating you.
So this is how you guys pair program over at IBM?
You don’t ‘pair whiteboard’ ...
I’ve seen this happen at my company during pair programming sessions.. I’ve heard about it happening toward the end of interviews at other companies. Either one of two things: * they’ve already ruled you out and want you to understand the solution for your own knowledge * trying to see how you would be like to pair program with/communicate with. What was the problem?
Sounds like a bad interviewer
Interviewing skill needs an interview to evaluate the skill. Sigh, don't ask me how many were weird interviewers I have dealt with. Why are they so insecure and have to show off their alpha nature?
That’s legit. I can totally imagine the guy trying to flex about condensing the code, rather than trying to let the interviewee complete the task/shine/improve in their own way.
My weirdest interview: a startup recruiter contacts me directly to schedule an interview. I accept. Then the interviewer accuses me of “spying” on his startup for my current employer. WTF! Employer was not even in their area of product.
That is weird. Start-ups folks can be pretty paranoid sometimes...
😂😂😂
So are you going to hire him or not?
😂
Umm, I’m not gonna hire him as interviewer for sure.