For me an instant turn-off is live coding (I get too stressed) and pointless academic questions that have nothing to do with the things I would be doing there.
And to be honest after I experience that combo I usually give up cause that means most people there were chosen based on that.
Interviewer: Can you explain me linked list structure?
Candidate: blah bla blah ....
Interviewer: Great. Can you tell me where linked list structure is commonly used?
Candidate: On job interviews
Live coding and knowing why we have BigO and what it means is a hard requirement for us for senior candidates.
We even dive deep into UDP vs TCP and the differences. You don't need to know this always, but if things go bad, i rather have a collegue on my side that understands this stuff.
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For me an instant turn-off is live coding (I get too stressed) and pointless academic questions that have nothing to do with the things I would be doing there.
And to be honest after I experience that combo I usually give up cause that means most people there were chosen based on that.
Interviewer: Can you explain me linked list structure? Candidate: blah bla blah .... Interviewer: Great. Can you tell me where linked list structure is commonly used? Candidate: On job interviews
Linked list of buffers are pretty useful for ferrying data in and out fast when you cannot allocate a lot of contiguous memory.
Live coding and knowing why we have BigO and what it means is a hard requirement for us for senior candidates. We even dive deep into UDP vs TCP and the differences. You don't need to know this always, but if things go bad, i rather have a collegue on my side that understands this stuff.