How to ace your technical interviews 

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@@abdallamosa7079 Got the job :D

@@alexbraatz1431 Congrats!

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@@darensmith6444 I didn't get it LMAO

@@Sean-tv5od damn why not?

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You'll get one eventually! Keep up with the hard work

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Same lol people are easily threatened to creative thinking

Lol no. Correctness is also super subjective. I *conduct* interviews to hire for our team at Zillow, and it's not pass/fail based on whether they "solved the puzzle".

@@David-we5nr Well that has been my experience. And I have done 20+ interviews in the past three years. In coding interviews correctness is not subjective; your code either works or it doesn't.

@@siarez there's so much more to it. You can have solutions with different runtime complexities, variable naming/code structure/code composition all matter, producing test cases, discussing code scaling. Explaining your reasoning matters. Handling edge cases. None of these are directly tied to code running or not. In fact I've failed candidates who had a working solution and passed ones that had partially working code. There's so so so much more to interviewing

@@siarez I'm offering this as unsolicited advice. Maybe you passed 20/20 of those interviews, in which case, keep doing what you're doing. But if you're looking for ways to improve, accepting that code correctness is only a small piece of the puzzle will help a lot in prioritization

@@David-we5nr All good advice. I'm seasoned developer and I'm pretty good in all those fronts. The only thing I wasn't not good at was solving Leetcode puzzles. Maybe you are different, but the 20+ people who interviewed me seemed to mostly care about whether I found the lowest time/space complexity solution.

I’ve been applying to jobs since graduation from bootcamp and I’m having trouble getting an interview

Have you checked for firms in your area where you would like to work....then searched LinkedIn for folks that work there? I once had a cool conversation years ago with someone on linkedIn by asking questions about how they got the positions in their career...Granted I didn't get an interview from that contact, but it helped me network and eventually make useful connections. Good Luck!

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spot on - if you are strong in a particular area or have some past experience that displays your abiility to adapt including how you learned new technologies and skillsets, look for logical avenues to draw parallels to what you know or how you performed. The goal is to in part provide the interviewer a positive impression on how a past experience can predict how you will adapt to the new environment/technology. IE....I may not have worked with HIVE or Impala, but I taught myself mySQL and in my last job I worked on....and this is why I can use that to be successful in learning XYZ in the new position.... Also - Focus on things you have done at some point and avoid the 'I was part of a team that worked on....' answers. What did you do and how can you help us?

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