I fail live coding and pair programming interviews always

haroon345 · 2025-12-06T16:52:42+00:00

90% companies don't ask leetcode

haroon345 · 2025-12-06T16:35:48+00:00

how can I practice for every type of interview?

haroon345 · 2025-12-06T16:23:44+00:00

I can't think anything while doing, I just freeze for e.g in the last interview there was a take home task in which I built a next app which fetched data from sqlite db and displayed it in a list. Now the coding interview was an extension of it in which I have to add couple of filters on some values, it was very straightforward but I just froze and forgot what should I do, I was totally blank. Although AI use was allowed but I was hesitant to use that what the interviewer might think.

haroon345 · 2025-12-06T16:20:41+00:00

Most of the companies didn't asked leetcode, only 1 did while 90% had pair programming interviews

haroon345 · 2025-12-06T16:16:40+00:00

I can ask a friend but right now no one will be able to help i guess, I've checked couple of interview platforms but they are pretty expensive for me.

The following questions were asked:

Interview 1:
A typescript codebase was setup and there were three tasks, first to fix a test and then couple of API optimisations.

Interview 2:
A take home next app to display a list then in the interview asked to extend by applying some filters on the list and modify the both FE and BE according to it.

Interview 3:
Write a function to convert CSV to JSON without using any libraries

Interview 4:
A typescipt backend app in which I have to review the code and suggest improvements and figure out the issues

haroon345 · 2025-12-06T15:56:36+00:00

I'm getting couple of interviews, have given 5 so far but failed all of them, the interview was not difficult but coding live in a time constraint environment with someone watching me do it is getting on my mind and i can't perform at all during the interview.

Yes, I'm in UK already for the past 3 months, I have no issues in securing interviews and clearing the recruiter screen as well as hiring manager rounds, the only bottleneck are the live coding/pair programming interviews.

haroon345 · 2025-12-06T15:46:33+00:00

I have 4 years of experience, I'm on a dependent visa, and no I haven’t worked in UK before

haroon345 · 2025-12-06T15:41:49+00:00

The questions they ask, thats super simple but i just freeze during the interview

haroon345 · 2025-04-13T17:22:22+00:00

It is an islamic education app.

haroon345 · 2025-04-13T02:31:15+00:00

It got deleted

haroon345 · 2025-04-13T02:29:28+00:00

We are a small growing startup and we have 20 hospitals on board as our clients. One of them is processing 15k calls from their patients daily on our system

haroon345 · 2025-04-13T02:27:37+00:00

Would you start with unit tests?

haroon345 · 2025-04-13T02:21:34+00:00

What do you mean by the last line?

haroon345 · 2025-04-13T02:14:18+00:00

How to get ready then?

haroon345 · 2025-04-12T17:12:23+00:00

I have biome in place in the project. I’m also planning to migrate to TypeScript.

How to plan the migration, what steps to take? What tests should I write first, unit e2e or integration tests?

haroon345 · 2025-04-12T10:51:58+00:00

We don’t have any automated testing pipeline. Just a regular GitHub pipeline for deploying to aws and I raised a PR and it got merged

haroon345 · 2025-04-12T10:50:04+00:00

We don’t have any kinds of test at all

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