[desdiv]

I have a CS degree from a first-tier school. My experience with exams and interviews is almost the exact opposite of yours.

In exams I don't get as nervous because I know that if I know the material then I will pass, if I don't then I won't. You can't bullshit your way past the professor/TA grading your exam.

But in interviews I know that people who are far better than me have failed[0], and that people less competent than me could get the job. So it's not my coding ability or my experience that's being measured here, it's something else. And I don't know whether I have that something else or not. Maybe I do, maybe I just don't.

[0] https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?lang=en

[javabean22]

I feel exactly the same way. The good thing is you keep doing the interviews for some time at some point you run into normal people and then it's easy.