Ask HN: Getting around the hour-long design interview
But I'm going to do so by having lunch or something and come back in 4 hours or tomorrow and then have a whole plan for it. On top of that I failed to specialize because I'm one of those who got into programming because it's interesting. When they say "how do I solve X" I also have to guess which X the interviewer wants this time, and which X I'm going to be able to go deep enough on without having 24 hours to just learn it.
To be clear I'm not asking for a job. I get one recruiter call a day without actively looking. The first level of the funnel isn't a problem.
I'm just thinking that I can't be the only one who hits this wall. SO my question is twofold. Is there a way to filter employers out who are like this? Is there a good way to end run around the problem?
The best idea I've come up with is to start maintaining a GH repo of these and how I'd have solved them, but obviously this is ethically questionable and likely to backfire, even if I don't put company names on it and stick to generalized problems.