I do a fair amount of interviews, 60+ during the six months prior to COVID and during those I have noticed some common mistakes candidates make during the interview that are highly avoidable, so I thought I’d spend just a little bit of time writing those down and share them.
#1 — Not Asking Clarification Questions
Normally all tech companies make candidates go through at least one round of technical interview, where a problem is presented and the candidate needs to address it and solve it. This interviews can vary in form, ie. coding challenges where the candidate needs to do hands-on coding, architectural interviews where the candidate would need to design some “bigger” system and so on and so forth.
Regardless of what type of technical question you may be asked, it is very important to ask clarifying questions always. And I can’t stress enought the always here, even if you think the problem given is trivial, it is not, take a bit of time to think about it and questions will pop up in your mind. For instance, if I asked you during an coding interview:
- “given a list of numbers, return two numbers such that one times the other results in 220”
You could think that this two-sentence problem is very clear. However questions that I would ask are “is the…
