people don't talk about failing at job interviews often enough so here's one of mine: the year was 2009, and i was looking to move away from front end work to more backend/fullstack work, and i was on the phone with a guy from mozilla
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After six 1-hour interviews, and being asked about algorithms and their computational complexity (big O and how I calculated it) at every single one of them. At the 7th interview, I whiteboarded the algorithm and when asked “are you sure that’s the complexity of your algorithm?”
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I replied with “I honestly don’t know. I saw big O in college -5 years before- but have never used it in a professional environment.” The recruiter told me “We use it here everyday.” ...And we both knew the interview was over.
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Reminds me of my interview at Google some years ago. I think every O answer I gave was wrong.
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I absolutely failed an O bit of an on-site interview at Yahoo in 2004. The other interviewers that day heard about it, had a good laugh and gave me the job anyway. Whew. But I'll never forget that moment when both the interviewer and I acknowledged how very out my depth I was.
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