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serge_mamian t1_ist4n81 wrote

You dodged a bullet. Good companies don’t interview like that.

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[deleted] t1_isvrgis wrote

I mean let’s be real this is just a variation of exactly how the major multi-billion dollar tech companies do interviews.

They can get away with it because they’ll pay people $300-500k+ and it’s just a gauntlet you have to get through. Small companies who replicate this concept while paying 1/4 the salary are out of their damn minds though.

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serge_mamian t1_iswdbjm wrote

They might ask you Leetcode-style questions, systems design, ML systems design, but from my experience (working for FAANG) nobody asks to reach accuracy of 90% within 30 minutes and that you had to memorize pandas one liner to do a certain operation that OP did in a loop or whatever. The interviewer is a complete moron.

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DorianGre t1_isw2z1a wrote

There was a point in my career that I began refusing to do coding interviews.

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serge_mamian t1_iswe8y2 wrote

At a certain skill level, yes, that's the way to go. But it takes hard effort to get there. I would certainly walk out of the interview if somebody asked me to pull out a pandas one liner from memory, cause unless I am desperate, it's gonna be a shitshow to work for that team.

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DorianGre t1_iswfgbn wrote

I’ve been lucky in that at some point people started calling me and offering me jobs, so I haven’t interviewed in forever. Happened again yesterday in fact. It will happen to you to if you become known for some obscure but useful area of tech.

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