I've handled several high stress situations on the job. E.g. servers are down, customers are pinging support. Everyone doesn't know what to do.
I've solved problems several times in that environment. I have the battle scars and I'm used to doing that.
I am much more comfortable in a giant legacy codebase that I've never used before, trying to fix a critical bug that is losing the company thousands of dollars per minute than I am during these live coding sessions.
I realize tons of it has to do with practice so I plan to do that.
It's just confusing to have an entire decade of high performance (with references to prove it) to be judged on how well I can dance with a funny hat on.
I'm not whining, I'll do the work. I just don't have time right at this moment, if that makes sense.
Yeah I mean I totally agree that live coding in an interview is some contrived thing that doesn't reflect the actual value that you would bring. No one builds anything great in 45 minutes. It's like the industry doesn't know how else to assess skill.
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Thanks for the insight.
I've handled several high stress situations on the job. E.g. servers are down, customers are pinging support. Everyone doesn't know what to do.
I've solved problems several times in that environment. I have the battle scars and I'm used to doing that.
I am much more comfortable in a giant legacy codebase that I've never used before, trying to fix a critical bug that is losing the company thousands of dollars per minute than I am during these live coding sessions.
I realize tons of it has to do with practice so I plan to do that.
It's just confusing to have an entire decade of high performance (with references to prove it) to be judged on how well I can dance with a funny hat on.
I'm not whining, I'll do the work. I just don't have time right at this moment, if that makes sense.
Yeah I mean I totally agree that live coding in an interview is some contrived thing that doesn't reflect the actual value that you would bring. No one builds anything great in 45 minutes. It's like the industry doesn't know how else to assess skill.