[rolandhordos]

I too think something has gone horribly wrong with the "modern tech interview" especially in a large corporation. It feels like a Frankensteinian experiment gone horribly wrong relative to real world results-oriented development. If the actual job was like the "tech interview", and the actual corporation run like the "tech interview" process I would leave screaming inside of a week ;)

Practice can work against you. In one case I was worried about the algorithm and data structures side of things based on glassdoor posts. Spent a week of evenings coding algorithmic whizbangery. In the interview I obsessed on getting every line of from-scratch code right (obsessively focused is often how I code real software) and stopped "listening" to what was being asked. Double whammy was the interviewer was actually not very familiar with the solution to the problem (canned and complex do not mix well) and when I confidently but politely corrected him as we were coding, boy the color of the interview changed fast and game over. My bad, In the real world I'd politely correct a coworker too.

Or maybe what you should practice is writing out JavaScript with pen and paper like another interview. I hadn't written code out by hand for 15 years .. like since the invention of the keyboard. I did a terrible job despite having just completed a non-trivial very modern mobile front end project. Ri-donk-u-lous.

Be yourself, stay balanced, do your best, HR science is evolving too.