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I'm one of four people I know of who fails interviews at a high enough rate that I could fail 20 in a row (and I believe I have). AFAICT, the only trait the four of us have in common is extreme nervousness in interviews.https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1058019605413748737 …
I'd never thought about it this way before (look at who gets rejected and see what they have in common), but I guess there's one thing interviews are pretty good at filtering for: people who are a certain type of nervous in interviews.
[raises hand] (I don't know that I get extremely nervous in interviews, but if you ask me something like "what's the toughest bug you ever encountered" I just draw a total blank.) (same phenomenon if you ask me to tell a joke, I simply won't be able to remember one on the spot)
I was at a party tonight and someone asked me what my favorite book was. Couldn't answer. They relaxed the constraint and asked about "a good book". Couldn't answer. They relaxed the constraint again and asked me about "any book, good or bad". Couldn't answer.
Oh, and I failed interviews for 19 months, at one point in my career... had to do a day-labor type job just to pay rent. Worst & best experience in my career. Taught me just how shallow companies have become & how little money I truly need to survive. ($10/hr)
Survival != enjoyable living Survival = tons of weight loss, stress, & not having money for bus fare to interviews.
Have a non-traditional CS background and/or be an under-represented minority and it's even more possible to fail 20 interviews in a row. I don't know the exact number but early on in my career I probably got close to that rate.
People told me I'd face job discrimination for something I had done (didn't serve in the military), interviews were incredibly stressful - when will the question come up? what will I say? I represented myself poorly. I assume people with a criminal record have it even worse.
I don't get nervous at all. I do interviews for fun. I try to interview at least once a month, no matter where I'm working. I still fail interviews, but I pass more than I fail.
I've heard enough others saying they do this that I'm starting to wonder if this is hurting the interview process more than helping. If companies expect x% are just there "for fun", they have less care to actually send feedback or respond quickly.
Right there with you. Regardless of prep, my mind goes blank when put on the spot. In data science interviews, that difficulty feels compounded by 2 things: there are a million definitions of what a data scientist does, and questions that have no predictive validity wrt the role
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