Failing interviews
Hey all, I feel so shit at the moment. I’ve failed 8-10 interviews so far, out of job since a year. It seems like every interview they ask a totally different set of questions or scenarios. Whatever I prepare gets me maybe 50-60% of the way, rest are all new questions and I fuck up or I’m not able to fully give them an answer.
What makes me feel even worse is that, lot of people aren’t even getting calls at the moment and here I am speed-running every single opportunity to failure. I’m so done at the moment. No idea how to proceed or what to prep.
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I saw a streak of 15 back to back rejections. The only way forward is to keep your head down, prepare and keep interviewing like its your last one.
What helped me was peer to peer mock interviews. And luck.
I do understand your situation. It would be extremely difficult, but this is the only thing I would do.
Are you failing dsa based interviews?
If yes go to pramp and practice mocks everyday. You get new question in that anyway.
It’s a mix of both DSA and Software engineering stuff. Too many things to recall & be ready with. I’d rather them give me something to build and I do it in front of them. But hey that’s not how interviews work so, at least not every round.
Thanks for the resource, I will check it out for DSA related stuff!
If you think you should know the answer to every question, you should set the questions yourself. That's not how interviews work? Then ig you'll never pass an interview
I'd rather hire someone who got caught with a few questions and maneuvered around it will than someone who gave prepared answers to every single question
Learn how to stay calm and think through a surprise question. Because it's not like you'll only get known things in your job. If you can't deal with new things, maybe you're not ready for this domain
I had failed 25 interviews at a stretch... But I used to focus and learn on things that I didn't know in my previous interviews .. Finally with all these learnings I cleared and got into a good company.. So don't get disappointed.. Take it as a step to learn and move forward...
Thank you, I am making a list post every interview. It’s getting frustrating since, every new interview they ask something I haven’t come across and I fumble. I will keep trying!
So lets say there are around 500+ questions more of less from tricky to standard points of the work you do and the things you do ..
You would have to be constantly in that zone in your head of recalling most of the topics in your head all the time .
If you are not in that zone and thinking about couple of extra things at the time of your interview like some work you have to do in the market, this is pending and that work needs to be done or a song playing in your head, you might fail to recall that 387th ques out of 500 at the time of interview.
Cos what i have observed is that if you were in a high pay job say 20+ lacs, chances are interviewers want somebody to know everything to answer at least 9/10 questions thrown at you due to the competition in the market.
Companies do find smart folks in the market who are able to answer them all.
So keep your focus.
Thanks for the detailed reply. Yes I am searching out in the 20+ LPA range. I feel the bar is quite high right now and being perfect is quite hard for me. I get to like 2-3 round and rejected. It sucks but yeah I’ll try going forward. Hope something sticks.
Got stunned seeing 810 interviews!😅
Did I post this in my dreams😞🙄. Exactly sameeee happening with me !