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Comment by AceJohnny2 | Hacker News Reader

Love to hear it. Interviewing sucks from all perspectives, so as an interviewer I try to give leeway for the stress and time pressure the interviewee is under. But the key thing is they must express their reasoning for their approach, and "I don't have time to dig into this" will get you a long way, at least under me.

(Obviously there are nuances, but there is not enough space in this comment to elaborate)

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which makes interviewing all the more annoying because then your success applies to which interviewer you get

Such is every aspect of life, fortunately or unfortunately.

If you fail an interview because the interviewer was unreasonable, sometimes you should be thankful and think of it as a bullet dodged.

Yes, an otherwise good company might have a bad interviewer, but if they don't have some feedback loop to catch it, chances are there are other things they also don't catch.

Had an interview once over Zoom. Dude has me do a coding test: normal String manipulation algorithmic problem solving stuff. So I’m screen sharing and try to google something and he’s like “STOP! What are you doing?” I’m like “well I don’t remember the exact name of the function” and he’s like “You can’t do that, this is a Test!!”

So I flunked his “test” and then immediately contacted the recruiter and said “no thanks” before he could muahahaha

I mean, in this case… it is nice to get an interviewer that lets stuff slip, but brute-forcing bugs in an interview problem doesn’t seem very good, right?

Are your hiring? :)

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