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    Dan Luu‏ @danluu 1 Nov 2018
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    Dan Luu Retweeted Patrick McKenzie

    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 …

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    Patrick McKenzie @patio11
    Want to become an engineer not a PM? Try flunking your way out of 20 engineering interviews. (It’s almost literally impossible to, given how bad the industry is at interview calibration.)
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      1. Dan Luu‏ @danluu 1 Nov 2018
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        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.

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      2. joelgrus  😷‏ @joelgrus 1 Nov 2018
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        [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)

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      3. Dan Luu‏ @danluu 1 Nov 2018
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        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.

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      2. Chris Lizama‏ @chrismlizama 1 Nov 2018
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        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.

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      2. SH∀∃ ∃RISSON  ☠‏ @shapr 1 Nov 2018
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        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.

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      1. Matt Mollison‏ @slimloon 1 Nov 2018
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        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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      2. Seb Insua‏ @sebinsua 1 Nov 2018
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        Wow, you're so talented, I didn't think this could be you. Certain types of interviews used to give me crazy anxiety. The sort in which your heart races and you get motion sickness. Completely impossible to perform in this situation.

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      3. Seb Insua‏ @sebinsua 1 Nov 2018
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        I think it gets easier long-term because people remember working with you and you get a lot of jobs this way. I think I'd still find it painful to go and do a multi-hour whiteboarding duel at a big corp though. Much prefer less antagonistic processes.

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