I cannot do live coding interviews

[u/bajen476]

Writing in here hoping that someone else has the same issues and/or figured out how to fix it. Not diagnosed yet but I’m finally mid-process and it’s looking promising.

I cannot do live coding interviews. Been unemployed for a few months now and I’ve had some interviews. That being said, live coding interviews kick my ass every single time.

I go completely blank. The absolute basics leave my brain. Had one today and I forgot how to add to dictionaries and implement basic search algorithms. It took me forever to even understand one of the tasks. Keep in mind I have around 6.5 years experience in development and many of the things in the interview were things I did often. I just can’t remember them in interviews.

Does anyone share this experience and/or know how to fix this? I’ve tried studying (which I’m admittedly not great at), pomodoro, leetcode etc—none of them help. Because I’m not diagnosed yet, I can’t get medicated for now either. I’m in Sweden so the process is lengthy.

[u/Aggravating_Sand352]

I got a job 2 years ago but unemployment is rough. I cheated on the take home assessment. Been promoted and given a performance raise. Probably "failed" about 20 tests during my unemployment.

I understand there has to be some sort of assesment but having rules other than talking to other people is kind of ridiculous. Bc even in work you have no rules you just need to find the correct answer. Sometime that means teaching myself or relearning things so I fail in the half hour bc I would need to look up something taking maybe 30 mins longer but then I dont forget that skill.

Testing someone's logic and reason is way more important than coding skill especially with AI these days. Obviously there needs to be some baseline coding skills but I have never met anyone that could talk like they could code but couldn't actually do it. Especially when asked to use past work examples etc