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Ask HN: Purchase live-coding/interview instruction?

• PaulHoule 9y ago
  Click on my user link and send me an email and I can help you out.
• avitzurel 9y ago
  Hi, I have been running mock interviews on Twitch for the last couple of months now, and the responses are incredible. You can check out previous interviews on the YouTube[1] channel. You can also hop by the Twitch[2] channel. I usually stream three times a week at 8 pm PST. The interviews are 100% free and offered as a community resource. You can maintain anonymity as well. Feel free to jump on the discord [3] if you want to schedule one [1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuFT6CtDnOGvcn9WdAvBusA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuFT6CtDnOGvcn9WdAvBusA [2] https://twitch.tv/KensoDev https://twitch.tv/KensoDev [3] http://avi.io/discord http://avi.io/discord
  • wingerlang 9y ago
    I'd love to see them categorised better, I was looking for something specific e.g. an iOS developer interview which I didn't find. Not really sure if it is mentioned in the description or if each one is one or multiple interviews but it was kind of messy so I lost interest fairly fast.
• pryelluw 9y ago
  Shoot me an email to pryelluw@gmail.com and ill interview you for free. I used to do hiring at my last job. :)
• fershey 9y ago
  Check out www.10xclub.io
• zapperdapper 9y ago
  Looks like you have some good pointers there. Having done quite a bit of interviewing for programmers/tech writers I would say most people are not natural with live coding and whiteboard work. I personally was lost without Emacs and a compiler to hand. My last white-boarding session that was part of an interview was just horrible (writing Java code on a whiteboard) - I did get the job though so even if it's painful all is not lost. Like anything though you get better with practice (as you are doing). If you've got a whiteboard at home I would do impromptu sessions where you write up say tree creation and traversal, doubly-linked lists or whatever is appropriate for the job. If you've got a coder friend you can run things by that's even better. Also, make sure your GitHub page has got some meat there. Good luck!
• Spoom 9y ago
  Gainlo (http://www.gainlo.co/ http://www.gainlo.co/) does mock interviews with actual Big N / unicorn developers for a price. Triplebyte (https://triplebyte.com/iv/afyYdFu/cp https://triplebyte.com/iv/afyYdFu/cp , referral link), if you can make it to their final video interview, will also give you full feedback whether or not you pass, for free. They don't do whiteboarding but they do live coding and debugging. There are a few general tips though... the biggest of which is to talk out loud. They're not necessarily wanting a full solution to the problem (although it helps); the interviewer wants to know how you think, whether or not you can code decently, and if you test. (You prove the last part by running an example through your code while talking about it to find and fix any bugs.) Check out Cracking the Coding Interview (https://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-Questions/dp/0984782850 https://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming...) for more of this. It's a very good book. Pairing its problems with an actual whiteboard and a timer is a close approximation to a real interview.
• probinso 9y ago
  have you practiced? You can get super cheap "panel board" (will last ~ 1 year of use for 12$) (if in US found at home depot) Practice. Solve problems on a whiteboard. Set one up.
  • probinso 9y ago
    if you stumble a lot, then first practice by transcribing code snippets that you've authored. This will give you a feel for how pseudo your pseudo code should be. Once you are used to writing code by hand, try solving standard interview problems. Final task will be learning to verbally communicate during this, at that point its useful to ask for help.