| I honestly feel you’ll get horrible advice from HN. Many here feel too strongly about the process itself to give objective advice, as almost everyone here has probably been screwed over for no good reason at least once. What’s your goal? I assume, get a new, higher paying job. What’s the barrier? Interview style coding problems, apparently. So, things that will help you achieve your goal (IMHO): - Buying and reading cracking the coding interview - practice solving problems on sites like hacker rank and leet code - when you practice, try simulating interview conditions. Use pen and paper or a whiteboard if your interviews will involve that The more familiar and mundane the problems become, the less likely you are to feel
nervous with an audience. Just practice the problems until it is like tying your shoes. If asked to tie your shoe with someone watching, would you be so nervous as to be unable? If so you may have some serious anxiety issue you might want to work on before starting a job search. Things that definitely won’t help you achieve your goal: - ruminating on life’s injustices - ruminating on your own shortcomings - comparing your self with others - ruminating on the decidedly capricious and error prone hiring practices of Silicon Valley companies. Life is not fair and there is a time and place to think about those things. But doing so is counter productive to your goal, so I wouldn’t recommend it at the moment. |