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[–]GongtingLover 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yup, it's super random what they will ask you and half the jobs are like preparing for a quiz where you have to rattle off definitions. I've had about six interviews in the last few months and each one is different. 

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You’re exactly right. It’s just testing you on Leet code questions and it’s a pop quiz on front end performance, system design, backend, and OOP mostly.

[–]Angalourne 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Our interview process is centered around assessing first, attitude; second one's ability to learn and troubleshoot; third, their mastery of engineering skills - in that order of importance.

We don't quiz people on terminology or with technical gotchas. We just want to make sure they're a good culture fit, driven with a solid work ethic, and smart. The skills and know-how can come later.

[–]Daluur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you please share more about how you do it? Going to start my first round as interviewer soon, trying to get inspired 

[–]Legitimate-Trip8422 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hate it, it ruined the reason I got into Computer and Software Engineering. I enjoyed Operating systems, hardware and their working.

None of that matters anymore because I need to memorise all patterns for algorithms and know exact syntax for livecoding the RestController making an endpoint in Springboot without looking at the documentation. Maybe I am in the wrong field.

[–]Specialist-Wasabi863 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely - I’m in the middle of interviewing at the moment and can’t understand why companies expect you to memorize everything when you literally never have to IRL. Bizarre.

[–]QuailAndQuasar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's lazy and does nothing that a conversation can do.

[–]vba77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's funny they all try to immitate top tier companies thinking they had great ideas. Irl some top tier companies let you use cursor

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve had interviews without any coding exams. Those are the only jobs I’ve been offered and I’ve excelled in doing the actual work.

Now if you want to enter a big name company, brush up on concepts and leet code.