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by jaimebuelta 3509 days ago
My main problem with this is the fact that, at certain point, your previous experience gets somehow irrelevant.

Have you been able to solve difficult technical problem in the last 5 years, which you can explain in detail? It doesn't matter unless you can code me from scratch a binary tree. Do you have domain experience about something the company work? Cool story, but tell me the proper API call to do this obscure operation.

I understand what's the point of that, I made technical interviews myself and I know is the game to play, but at some point it feel a little weird that you cannot leverage your previous experience and go talk the interesting, actually relevant parts, not the big O of quick sort algorithm...

After playing the game N times (and I don't think I'm particularly bad at it), it gets a little tiresome, I have to say...