I agreed with your main post, but landing 1 out of 3 interviews? I know several people who got offers at both Facebook and Google out of school who did not hit a 1 out of 3 ratio of offers to interviews
Ok. It was a SWAG. My point being that a systemic failure to land a coding job is a problem with you, not the interview process(es).
My sentiment in my original reply is that I hear a lot of complaining about "i was asked to code binary search" interviews, which seems to come with an implicit but unstated "...and i failed to code binary search, therefore it is bullshit" statement attached to it. Somehow I feel like if it ended with "and I coded binary search because I can generally code on-demand or because I specifically practiced it, and I got the job!" -- like there would be less complaining happening...
I mean, people don't wanna do whiteboard coding ("it's not realistic"), they don't wanna do take-home coding ("it's too much work") ... are people willing to do ANYTHING to get a dev job?
I've seen a situation where the person literally refused to do an interview, just stated their desired comp, take it or leave it. Are you fucking kidding me?
> My point being that a systemic failure to land a coding job is a problem with you, not the interview process(es).
The statistics on this speak a far different truth - one where most of the time, you're going to get rejected no matter how good you are, because you're competing with hundreds of other candidates for one position.
