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YC Interview Questions Gamified

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69 pointsfazkan18 comments

Not going into YC, but I've done similar practice for behavioral interview questions. I've always wished, but rarely have seen, tools like this that give examples of good or bad responses.

I'm not sure why this is, but it always makes me worried that I'm answering them "wrongly."

Do you have a site that does this for regular interview questions? I'm thankfully not job-hunting atm, but it seems like something that would be good to do like 10 minutes of practice every week (or even month) with, regardless of status, and then a lot more practice when you're actively looking.

Actually google has a pretty similar one: https://grow.google/certificates/interview-warmup/

https://www.hellointerview.com

This looks awesome!

Still a major work in progress, feel free to send us any feedback stefan@hellointerview.com . Lots of work happening now.

this is cool, playing with it now.

awesome stuff, thx :)

We don't but that is something we should soon build. If anyone here wants to build something like this using our API, do reach out faizank@slashml.com, and we can give you the resources to build it.

It’s not a bad strategy to answer “wrongly” if you don’t need to get a job quickly. You’ll weed out the people you don’t want to work for and might find somebody who aligns with what you value.

Interviews are always 2-way, if you hear any of the red flags like "Agile", "stakeholder value", "tests" you can just clock out of the process. Makes it a lot easier.

The concept isn't bad. It is true you should be able to answer these questions in 15-30s. It just can't do do what humans do.

Key Differences

- Follow up questions will dig into specifics of your business/model (this can't do that well... maybe an llvm?). This is where you want to take a bit more time. - Growth is the most important. If you don't have growth you're not getting through (this isn't 100% true, but is a very good rule of thumb). The general order Profit > Revenue > Users > Interactions

The questions YC asks are very well known so there's nothing really truly new here.

You mean llm, large language models? Would be fascinating if a compile backend could generate follow-up questions though :)

How do you submit responses? It just has a timer that counts down and then I fail.

we don't have a submit response functionality, the idea is to rehearse your answers with your team-mates, there are no right or wrong answers

I think it's supposed to use the microphone to record your answers possibly? But it's not doing that for me either. I just get 15 seconds, and then "you failed."

founder of slashml.com, here let us know if you are planning on building anything cool with the API, we can give you free credits, and help you build the thing.

If you have an interview coming up, this might help

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