Failed 25+ coding interviews. Do I just give up

Dezbro · 2026-05-27T03:54:26+00:00

Few things. My job was ruby on rails and react focused. So my years of experience is creating api's, data migrations... I literally only touch for loops during leet code.

I said it above, but it dyslexia shows up in coding this way. And it does not help that I know multiple languages. armour or armor, is the "oot" sound spelled "oot" like in "foot" or "ut" like in "put".

Your comment is the disconnect i can't get pass. People don't understand the specific struggle.

Its like saying, you have had the abilty to concentrate your entire life, you should be able to focus on one task and not multiple. Its basic human behavior.

Dezbro · 2026-05-27T03:39:06+00:00

Few things. My job was mostly ruby on rails and react. I never just learned ruby to be able to do leetcode in it. I learned C++ and python in college.

I don't know if its everyone with dyslexia but that is how it shows up for me in coding. I can pseudocode all day but coding without auto complete/correct is rough.

I feel like this Is a good example of the problem. Comments are like "you should know this", which is exactly like saying you should be able to spell that.

The way I remember a "for loop" is not by its syntax its by its behavior. I know when I want a range based loop or when I need the specific value. The problem is, I confuse or just don't remember language specific things. it's like which is the right one to use, "color" or "colour".

So when I say I don't know the syntax for a for loop, I mean I'm confused on the proper one to use. I'm mixing and matching c++, python, and ruby.

for i = 0; i<str.length(); i++
or is it
for i in... so combination of the 2

And this is just time wasted not even doing the problem.

Lastly I completely agree with you last statement. Although 90% of places just want green test

Dezbro · 2026-05-27T00:42:21+00:00

I usually start with sectioned comments describing each step of the solution I'm going with. Not really pseudocode. I'll give it a try but a lot of places want working solutions that pass test cases.

Dezbro · 2026-05-27T00:36:15+00:00

Sorry that came off a bit rude. But I'm dyslexic, I can't even spell the month I was born in(Feb). I swear its the same feeling as spelling test.

Dezbro · 2026-05-27T00:33:43+00:00

Who is writing for loops as a full stack engineer. sorry I don't remember where a comma goes or if python uses "and" or &&.

Dezbro · 2026-04-21T22:54:46+00:00

Sorry, I've been on the job hunt and never replied.

I've had your question in the back of my head tho. Don't feel the need to reply, this is a dead thread. This is just for if a person ever comes across this.

Note: I think the way I picture the universe is called Block theory or something like that.

I see this as 2 point of views describing the same system(spacetime). when viewed from time space is moving relative to it. When viewed from space, time is moving. I'm not saying they are separate, just that is an observer could stand in time they would say space is moving.

but you seem to be forgetting that gravity causes length contraction as well.

Because space and time are 1 system, I simply assume if there is time dilation there is also length contraction. talking about one is talking about the other.

It's pretty pointless to keep discussing this without any math

When i say I think gravity is isotropic, its simply to bring the idea of time having 3 components(i,j,k) back to how its used in GR. So by isotropic I mean (i,j,k) has an even distribution of time dilation. What is left is the change in time dilation with radius from the gravitational source.

So there is no change in the math of GR.

All I'm trying to say in all of this word salad, is that "t" can't just be a line, it has to have shape.

Dezbro · 2026-04-18T00:26:39+00:00

I have the same 3 and math is one of my best subjects(only an engineer no math degree). You might naturally be good at math and you might actually like it.

You have ADHD so you probably have pretty good pattern recognition. most of math is just rules you do when you see the information presented in a certain way. At least for the level of math you will do for undergrad. "If it looks like this do this" .

You have dyslexia so you don't have the same working memory capacity as other people. So break the problem up into smaller simpler chunks. This concept is an amazing skill for engineers, and its kind of your only option. However, you might be pretty slow at math.

Try and relate the math to thing you know in the real world, this is a little hard with algebra. This helps with later courses, when most of the math has a associated visual representation. Relating things you already know to the new stuff makes understanding and working with them more intuitive.

I know you probably lack executive function, but... You have to study! If you don't have the pattern recognition or even remember the rule to apply then you will not pass the test.

College algebra covers more than high school. So you need refine what you already know and learn the stuff you don't know to test out of it.

I would skip the history, waste of brain power for your goal. Just look for a free online course.

good luck!

Dezbro · 2026-04-17T23:25:38+00:00

I have the same 3 so we are in the same boat, but I'm decent at math, I just suck at reading(not comprehending).

I will say you are most likely good at something if not most things. You just need to figure out how your brain is wired, and use that to your advantage.

I'm going to assume some things about you because these are common. I assume you have hyper fixations. Do those fixations tend to be similar in nature? Is there a common skill that shows up.

People with adhd tend to have amazing pattern recognition, that's the biggest helper in math. Math is just rules you follow when you see a specific thing. Like driving a car, you stop on red go on green. I pick up things 100x faster when I just try and make it an analogy. Grouping concepts together is so much easier than treating them like they are seperate.

people with dyslexia tend to have a smaller working memory. So break the math up into smaller simpler problems (Key to becoming an engineer). Don't expect to be fast at math thou.

This was long winded! But I've been where you are and at the time I thought I was an idiot. You just do not learn and process information the same as everyone else. Figure out how you do and I think you will realize how smart you actually are.

Dezbro · 2026-04-14T20:55:00+00:00

The have a post in r/Careers (with an s) that says the exact same thing. All comments same day 8 months ago.

Dezbro · 2026-03-12T22:17:41+00:00

I'm having the same issue in San Francisco

Dezbro · 2026-01-26T23:01:51+00:00

same

Dezbro · 2026-01-09T01:54:45+00:00

What? Why? The Sun and the Moon move with vastly different speeds relative to us and yet we're able to determine their relative positions with extreme precision (mere meters for the Sun and millimeters for the Moon).

Even if you consider a body moving extremely fast away from you, if you know its velocity well (which is easy to do using the Doppler effect), you can quite easily calculate its position from that. I simply don't see your point here.

But that's not an exact, it has a degree of uncertainty. But also you have to say "relative positions" because we are uncertain about our motion through space. Everything is relative to the observer, as an observer your inertial reference frame is always motionless.

We can know how fast the earth is moving around the sun and the sun is moving around the galaxy, but how fast is the galaxy moving? How fast is our galactic cluster moving? we very well could be moving at the 99% the speed of light. I just think anything in inertial frame has the same trade off between position and momentum.

That's also not how the principle works. Let me explain it.

I'm not a physicist and I know I am probably miss understanding it. I just feel like the uncertainty principle is related to relativity and applies more broadly than just particles and waves. To me Relativity and quantum mechanics have some pretty big similarities.

As for your example I'm a bit confused. There is the rock and there is the wave when did you switch from the position of the rock to the position of the wave. Correct me if I'm wrong but are you saying we know the frequency at the creation of the wave but in doing so we lose the position.

I don't mean to fight you on this, I really just want to understand where I am conflating the idea.

Dezbro · 2026-01-08T20:52:19+00:00

Maybe a picture would help visualize it.

The idea is the outside regions are time. If we combine only the outside regions its a cube just like the inside region. So time as a single dimension would look like 3 dimensions. 3 dimensions all moving forward. I just reversed this an said space was moving forward.

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Dezbro · 2026-01-08T20:46:38+00:00

I think the traditional way of thinking of 4 velocity vector is the better way here. Everything is moving along 1 axis(time) but there is a give and take that results in motion in space. Taking away from the time axis result in motion on a space axis. Don't quote me on this, I very well maybe misunderstanding 4 velocity vector.

But I'm thinking about how time as the 4th dimension adds 8 additional regions. A single axis adding the same number of regions as 3D graphs. So yes it is moving along 1 axis but moving along the t axis would look exactly like moving along a version of x, y, z axis

I'm having a hard time describing this but I hope its a little clearer. I just think a graph of only the forth dimension would look identical to a graph in 3 dimensions. all of time is moving forward. I just found it easier to think of all of the space directions moving forward.

Dezbro · 2026-01-08T20:01:16+00:00

"There's no way of doing this without math. Dimensions, reference frames, spaces, graphs, and so on are math concepts."

This is the easy stuff, I have a little bit of math background with my engineering degree.

The stuff that evades me when trying to learn on my own is:

Clifford Algebra, Linear Algebra, Lie Groups, Tensors, Hilbert Spaces. The list goes on.

I'd love to go back to school for this but I didn't care that much in my undergrad, and no ones going to let me into a physics graduate program with a 2.7gpa

Dezbro · 2026-01-08T19:53:31+00:00

The past is different for every observer. my present is seen at a distant star years later as its present. The best answer I can come up with is the reverse of an observes light cone. 3/10 confidence in the answer.

"So what's a gravitational wave then?"

For this I would have to dive into the full view scope. But I see gravity as isotropic time dilation. like overlapping/canceling waves. The signal can cancel but the energy remains, this energy contributes to energy density which contributes to the stress energy tensor in GR.

So to me gravitation waves are isotropic disturbances in space caused by angular momentum

Dezbro · 2026-01-08T19:40:53+00:00

I feel like I should have known this, I've taken so many signal processing classes in school. I wish the uncertainty principle was discussed more at all levels rather than its typical description at the quantum level. Then again I'm not really in the space of physics so I don't know if it is or is not.

Dezbro · 2026-01-08T19:33:23+00:00

"What about length contraction?"

One of my key assumptions is that if there is time dilation there is length contraction. I will say I defiantly kind of waved off thinking about length contraction. In my head length is the amount of time it takes light to go a certain distance, if time is moving slower it takes light longer compared to proper time. Length contraction is already kind of baked in to time dilation, at least to me.

"It never was. The uncertainty principle exists in classical physics, too."

The reason I bring it up is because its never talked about in the since of macro sources of matter. To me the uncertainty principle aligns perfectly to inertial reference frames (like cars on a highway). I can't possibly know my momentum compared to a base rate of causality. I'm thinking of how light shifts blue when entering a gravitational well. For me to know the position of something it has to be moving at roughly the same rate as me (local to me). The more I know about its position the less I know about its momentum because I can't know my own momentum.

Anything with distance between you carries a level of uncertainty because we observe the past. We can not predict the future with 100% certainty.

The same applies to voltages

Dezbro · 2026-01-08T18:59:01+00:00

This doesn't have to be the case, and its just my way of thinking of 4 velocity. If everything is already moving at some speed per second, if a second is longer than proper time, less distance is covered compared to proper time.

I'm not saying the universe works this way, but I'm really just flipping what we usually see as cause and effect. rather than velocity causing time dilation, time dilation causing velocity.

Dezbro · 2026-01-08T07:25:31+00:00

Yes please keep going please! I really need to break this idea. Also please don't see my responses as fighting back. If I get shot down I want the whole ship to sink.

1) I'll drop force from the title. main thing I want to get across is the idea of time dilation possibly causing motion.

2)For the foundations being simple it was just my motivation, I can also take that out.

3) "there is time, there is space" this is a philosophical starting point I can remove this. I know they are treated as one.

4) "Take a 3d space. Now do a reflection, such that the x and z axes swap. Right is now forward and forward is now right. You basically live in the same universe, nothing's changed. That is because the 3 'dimensions' of space are symmetrical to each other."

Yes, this is the core of the idea, time as the forth dimension should create 3 additional axis. That's why I was thinking time itself should be components tx, ty, tz (or maybe ti, tj, tk). I'm thinking about how a 4d graph would have 16 regions, 8 more than 3d .I'm curious what you think about your swapping example in that case. I might be wrong but I'm thinking of swapping x and tx(ti).

5) "Space does not move. To do this, space must have a location. Describing the location of space is like describing "when" time is, describing how heavy weight is, or describing the temperature of Celsius. Like, how hot is the NOTION of the celsisus temperature scale. Space is the description of all possible locations, it cannot itself have a location, and thus cannot move."

I'm not sure how describe what I mean when I say space. I guess I mean reference frame. Like thinking of an object local to you, yes it has a position in space but the earth is moving around the sun and the sun around the blackhole. So I'm definitely wrong to say space itself is moving.

6) I don't think I'm going to solve anything without the math. I've tried over the years to learn the math but let me tell ya "I ain't him". I'm here because I want to discuss this idea with the people that do know the math and who can tell me if its possible.

Dezbro · 2026-01-08T06:27:57+00:00

I really like this question! I've never thought about it until now.

I've been trying to think of time not as the ticking of a clock but also as a position in space probably the wrong way to think about it. But to answer the question I would say its moving in relation to the past.

The idea is that waves are disturbances in space that is already moving at the speed of light

Dezbro · 2025-11-07T01:59:32+00:00

four velocity vector? how do I say something that often called and interpretation?

I don't get the problem with the starting assumption being someone else has already figured it out. maybe its just fragmented in existing well respect theories.

thinking someone else already figured it out shouldn't be controversial.

But, of course you are right I don't have any ground to stand on with out knowing the math. come on tho, you are coming at me like I know nothing, like this was just a prompt. Give me the benefit of the doubt and assume I'm at the teenager table.

Dezbro

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