Most tech interviews and hiring processes are broken. This is a really good guide to how to adapt to the brokenness as a candidate:https://blog.usejournal.com/i-interviewed-at-six-top-companies-in-silicon-valley-in-six-days-and-stumbled-into-six-job-offers-fe9cc7bbc996 …
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One thing I think most candidates don’t appreciate is that they treat it like a test but it’s more instrumentally effective to treat it like a game. Discover the rules of the game and then provide the game with the input that the rules score highly.
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Companies are not unaware that this is a game. I have heard from interviewees at many companies on that list that individuals will literally send the book on how to take their interview to candidates. (This makes a lot of sense if you consider incentives despite being bonkers.)
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From an individual’s perspective, they may be compensated on your game performance, and so of course they want you to win even if the game is instituted as a filter mechanism. From company’s, “Willing to read docs and do unpaid work to satisfy our arbitrary preferences”, well.
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