"Interviews are hard in that they have absolutely nothing to do with your day-to-day job. If I were to go through the interviews again right now I'd make a massive fool of myself.
I'd say it's basically common knowledge that prior to making any hops, you've got to take at least a month or two to grind leetcode problems so that you're back in that head space where you can solve pointless problems with high efficiency.
Interviews are also hard because, if you end up with the personality type which views interviews as a chance to show how much more clever they are than everyone, then you've already failed. Their ego is tied to their "high bar" and impossible question set, and you're just fodder for them to show off that "high personal bar" during the de-brief."
Been working for 7 years in mid/avg tier companies. I always get lower compensation and avg teams because of avg performance in interviews. But after joining a team, I turn out to be the go to person for solving everyone's problem. In next 6 months I get moved to better teams and better products, and the cycle repeats again in next 1yr.
This is the story of many people who are assumed to be unspectacular but work hard
We at least use somethings that are asked in the interviews like the maps, arrays etc. But what about government employees they don’t even work. Why do they even need exams and why do they have to study for years to crack it.
The answer is filtering out the competition and choosing the best out of them all.
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