{"id":19,"date":"2022-01-29T00:43:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T00:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mitch\/?p=19"},"modified":"2022-01-29T00:47:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T00:47:03","slug":"the-gauntlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mitch\/2022\/01\/29\/the-gauntlet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gauntlet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Interview season is in full swing. I currently have 8 interviews scheduled for the first two weeks in February, with 6 more pending to be scheduled. The experience has been a whirlwind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my previous career in clinical trials you could usually expect to do just 1 interview. Particularly discerning companies might ask you to attend a second meeting with senior leadership if you already got the go-ahead after the first interview. For new-grad Software Engineer positions, the normal process seems to require 5-6 interviews\/assessment, totaling as many hours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone who is going through the New Grad job-finding process probably already knows this, but here is how it has typically broken down for me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>OA (Online Assessment) &#8212; 1-2 hours<\/li><li>Phone Screen &#8212; 1 hour<\/li><li>&#8220;On Site&#8221; round &#8212; 3-4 hours<ul><li>1 behavioral (aka &#8220;team fit&#8221;) interview &#8211; 1 hour<\/li><li>2-3 technical coding interviews &#8211; 1 hour each<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Most interviewers that I have had so far has been engaging, professional, and kind. Despite this, the process has been kind of grueling so far. I think this stems mostly from how hard it seems to know how well the interview process is going with any particular company. I&#8217;ve gotten rejections at the OA stage despite giving Big-O optimal solutions with time to spare. On the other hand, I&#8217;ve gotten to the final rounds for some companies despite the Phone Screen interviewer watching me sweat while barely scraping together a working solution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to waffle back and forth between feeling like I&#8217;m in over my head, to feeling like I must be doing <em>something<\/em> right since I keep being moved forward in the process. It can&#8217;t just be a fluke if it keeps happening, right? Maybe I&#8217;ve simply been a CS student for long enough now that the ambiguity and variability of the output despite the input now feels odd. I&#8217;d be more comfortable if formal logic could be applied to this process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview season is in full swing. I currently have 8 interviews scheduled for the first two weeks in February, with 6 more pending to be scheduled. The experience has been a whirlwind. In my previous career in clinical trials you could usually expect to do just 1 interview. Particularly discerning companies might ask you to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12068,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12068"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}