New ask Hacker News story: I am stressed out about interviews
I am stressed out about interviews
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I have an interview at facebook and google coming up. I have about 7+ years of experience. I have been doing leetcode and studying for last month. I have tried to motivate myself, I have been reasonably diligent in studying, but when I read through these forums it seems like people treat these interviews as FT jobs. I want to do that to, but I lack the motivation because I don't think I can compete. I feel I am hard worker, but apparently not compared to other folks. The only way to really compete is to put in as much work as these people. I got like a 100 in my algo classes, but they can ask the gambit of questions. They can ask anything from heaps to recursion to dfs to red black trees to I don't know what. I graduated top 10% from one the 10 best CS schools in country. I don't think I am dumb, but I feel I am just not as sharp as I was when I was younger. I feel like not going because its just stressing me out. Heck I didn't even apply for these jobs. Sure I would love the money and having google or fb on your resume looks nice, but its not helping my mental state. I really got to respect people who work at Google or FB for going through the tests. Are there really that many people who are so good at algo that they can come up with o(log n) o(1) solution to a problem in 30min? I am guessing they are recruiting a million people so they have get 1% to pass through their tests, but is the stress really worth it?
2 by intv_stress | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I have an interview at facebook and google coming up. I have about 7+ years of experience. I have been doing leetcode and studying for last month. I have tried to motivate myself, I have been reasonably diligent in studying, but when I read through these forums it seems like people treat these interviews as FT jobs. I want to do that to, but I lack the motivation because I don't think I can compete. I feel I am hard worker, but apparently not compared to other folks. The only way to really compete is to put in as much work as these people. I got like a 100 in my algo classes, but they can ask the gambit of questions. They can ask anything from heaps to recursion to dfs to red black trees to I don't know what. I graduated top 10% from one the 10 best CS schools in country. I don't think I am dumb, but I feel I am just not as sharp as I was when I was younger. I feel like not going because its just stressing me out. Heck I didn't even apply for these jobs. Sure I would love the money and having google or fb on your resume looks nice, but its not helping my mental state. I really got to respect people who work at Google or FB for going through the tests. Are there really that many people who are so good at algo that they can come up with o(log n) o(1) solution to a problem in 30min? I am guessing they are recruiting a million people so they have get 1% to pass through their tests, but is the stress really worth it?
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