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Originally Posted by suzzer99
Just had an in person interview that went approximately infinity times better than my two interviews yesterday. I was much more on my game.
In retrospect maybe trying to cram two hour long tech grillings into 3 hours - the day after ending a 7 month road trip - might not have been the best idea.
Sometimes it just happens. I literally have flashbacks to an interview I did a few years ago, where just like you, I knew a solution 10 seconds after I left and I've never forgotten it.
These kinds of interviews are bad. I don't know the solution, though.
I used to work at someplace that was very very hard on interviewees, one of the most strict places I'd ever seen, any whiff of a bad mark from an interviewer and you were out. If your pre-interview code sample wasn't perfect you didn't even get an in interview. They were vicious.
I had some people that I'd worked with interview there. People that I'd known and worked with a long time, and that I wanted to work with again. They failed the interview process. I knew that was bull****. That company's motto was essentially better safe than sorry, I guess.
I've also worked at places that were too permissive and hired smooth talkers, and that didn't turn out well either. I don't actually know the answer but these Google-style interviews isn't it, I think.
A friend of mine works at google and really pressures me to apply there. I don't think I want to work there. Like, I want to work at 2000-era google, maybe, but not today-google. Although, their offices are very impressive.