Congratulations. Were you headhunted or did you get a referral or apply? IIRC from some thread on HN before you don’t interview well. Good you got over that.
I was referred by someone who found me online (on LiveJournal, of all places). It’s true that I often fail interviews where they ask about technology specifics like API calls, because I’ve given up memorizing this stuff long ago. Math and algorithms, on the other hand, are easy and I never failed an interview on those. The best interviews are the ones where I get to write code and explain it :-)
It’s true that I often fail interviews where they ask about technology specifics like API calls, because I’ve given up memorizing this stuff long ago. Math and algorithms, on the other hand, are easy and I never failed an interview on those. The best interviews are the ones where I get to write code and explain it
This sounds like a good filter to get hired by the right sort of software company.
Congratulations. Were you headhunted or did you get a referral or apply? IIRC from some thread on HN before you don’t interview well. Good you got over that.
I was referred by someone who found me online (on LiveJournal, of all places). It’s true that I often fail interviews where they ask about technology specifics like API calls, because I’ve given up memorizing this stuff long ago. Math and algorithms, on the other hand, are easy and I never failed an interview on those. The best interviews are the ones where I get to write code and explain it :-)
This sounds like a good filter to get hired by the right sort of software company.