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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[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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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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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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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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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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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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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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