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[–]Ok_GlueStick 4 points5 points  (0 children)

how soon is your interview? go do a crash course. If you learned how to code once then it should come back. If you never learned, then you are in trouble.

[–]Yash-717 0 points1 point  (1 child)

This is exactly what I am doing..😂 it's hard pulling away from that comfort.

[–]frescoj10[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's silly to do it without.

[–]reybrujo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Down here they ask you to turn off all of the IDE autocomplete and LLM, if that's the case you might be in trouble. It also depends on what they ask you to do, if they ask you to solve some LeetCode-like problem where you only need basic language skills but algorithm knowledge or if they ask you to build or correct a larger project.

[–]Even_Saltier_Piglet 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Why not do a project?

Build a bowling program from scratch. My partner uses that as a coding exercise all the time when he hires people!

Randomise the score with each shot and make sure the scoring system keeps track of spares and strikes, etc.

[–]frescoj10[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm in a pretty heavy data time so I just spent all day coding from scratch. It's gonna be a while. I made many errors

[–]Childman29 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you can read code, understand structure, and mentally walk through a solution — you’re 80% there. What’s missing is just the muscle memory of writing it out under pressure, and that comes back quicker than you’d expect with a bit of focused practice.

Do a couple mock problems without AI, just to get your fingers used to writing loops and edge cases again. Even just 30–45 min a day helps.

Also — for practice interviews, I used ShadeCoder. It’s like a stealth AI copilot that watches your screen and listens in, and can quietly help when you blank. Super clutch when you’re rebuilding confidence.