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I Failed My Coding Interview
Why coding interviews are aggravating and unfair
Coding interviews are a love/hate relationship for most software engineers. There are radical vantage points on what is the right way to interview an incoming software engineer for a specific or general position. These interviews can be high-level conceptual conversations, screen-sharing interviews (i.e., Collabedit), whiteboarding, paired-coding, or a variety of other styles. There is not a consistent pattern or style of interview within the tech industry.
What does that mean? It means that engineers and developers do not know how to properly prepare for every single interview. These interviews vary drastically different in topic and level of difficulty from company to company.
Common among clients in the past, these interviews center on writing code on a whiteboard while having the interviewee “think out loud” and explain themselves every step of the way. It’s an odd and somewhat dated process, but these interviews aren’t structured this way in order to optimize for modern implementation.
