Programming exercise during job interview (lemmy.world)

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How do you guys do it? I just had my first encounter yesterday for a data engineering job and I sincerely fucked up. My mind went completely blank, I was thinking along all the wrong lines and I think I didn't even correctly understand the question, because there were all these words that I've never heard of.

How do you even prepare for something like that?

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[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 6 points 10 months ago

Other people have good answers already. Chiefly to ask questions and talk through your reasoning.

But also I've noticed the difficulty of interview questions varies wildly. Some places would give dynamic programming problems I'm terrible at. Others would give trivial "find the largest number in this array of integers, in python. Don't worry about efficiency. " problems.

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