What interview questions stump you the most?

Lucas Chen Oct 11 ・1 min read

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The interview.

The one thing separating you from a rollercoaster life of prestige in your dream job.

We all have questions that stump us the most; however, I'm interested to hear your questions, and I'll respond to them best I can in an upcoming post!

Happy coding!

DISCUSS (8)

Lucas Chen

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Drew Bredvick

Oct 11

Honestly, all algorithm questions get me unless I prep extensively. If I know the company cares about algos I need to prep for at least a month.

I have shied away from companies that rely too much on algorithms because of this.

Robert Gold

Oct 11

That's fair. However, companies sometimes just want to know you're working to prepare for these interviews. We actually let an interviewee push an interview so they could do more algo review before speaking with our dev team. How are you learning if companies care about algorithms?

Drew Bredvick

Oct 11

Glassdoor interview ratings have been pretty accurate for me in the past.

damian

Oct 11

When interviewing for a ~very~ large company years ago I was asked about linked lists. When asked how to iterate backwards I was a little taken aback, explained how it wouldn't make sense unless there were pointers to the previous node. Apparently I was "wrong" because I should have said "change it to a doubly-linked list". I didn't know it was an option to change the premise.

Lou — Cloud Native Software Engineer

Oct 11

Urgh, when there's clearly a "right answer" and it's your job to find their definition of right... I've had that a few too times, too! I feel you.

Phil Hughes

Oct 11

The question that always gets me is when I’ve been asked ‘where do you see yourself in X years?’. I never think that far ahead so giving an answer is always hard. Then I think ‘should I say at this company still or do I need to tell them in X years I want to be somewhere else?’.