[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":861},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-7978075":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":5,"maker":10,"posted_at":11,"year":12,"points":13,"comments":14,"rank_in_year":15,"shown_in_year":16,"top":17,"tier":18,"category":19,"subcategory":20,"format":21,"keywords":22,"reception":27,"sentiment":28,"stance_mix":29,"scored_comments":34,"aspects":35,"strip":45,"post_text":48,"what":49,"said":98,"maker_in_thread":203,"shape":215,"grid":220,"attempts":823,"same_week":824,"maker_shows":39,"maker_hidden":853,"reader_version":854,"card":855},"7978075","interviewing.io","Free, anonymous coding interview practice","title","Show HN: Free, anonymous coding interview practice","http:\u002F\u002Finterviewing.io","leeny",1404320269,2014,604,215,10,2272,1,"legend","learning_science","interview practice","web_app",[23,24,25,26],"coding interview practice","anonymous interview","technical interview","mock interview","mixed",0.417,{"positive":30,"neutral":31,"mixed":32,"critical":33},33,18,0,9,60,{"design":36,"execution":38,"idea":40,"docs":42,"pricing":43,"privacy":44},{"positive":37,"critical":32},2,{"positive":17,"critical":39},4,{"positive":41,"critical":37},23,{"positive":17,"critical":17},{"positive":17,"critical":32},{"positive":32,"critical":37},[32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,46,46,32,32,46,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,32,46,39,39,46,46,47,39,46,47,39,46,46,39,17,37,46,32],5,3,null,{"problem":50,"audience":66,"pricing":77,"motivation":88,"time_to_build":48,"stack":95,"openness":96,"stage":97,"team_size":96},{"value":51,"source":52,"evidence":53},"Nervousness and lack of practice in technical coding interviews.","commenter",[54,58,62],{"id":55,"by":56,"text":57},"7979215","eric_bullington","I find code interviewing so nerve-wracking that I'm delaying my transition from another profession into a much-desired full-time programming job. I'm 40 and always aced…",{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},"7978741","thomasmann","I'm very scared of interviewing. I'm 29 and actually never got a job by interviewing and only had 1 interview in my life. It was kinda awful and the lady that interviewed me…",{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},"7978373","notastartup","This is a very promising idea. I always crack when it comes to algorithm type question. I am aware of some of the run of the mill ones like, write a palindrome detector, bubble…",{"value":67,"source":52,"evidence":68},"Software engineers preparing for technical interviews.",[69,73],{"id":70,"by":71,"text":72},"7979437","chipgap98","As someone who is going into my senior year of college, this looks fantastic. I don't have a ton of experience with technical interviews and I would love to get some more. I've…",{"id":74,"by":75,"text":76},"7978258","Swizec","I love this! Too many of my friends who are great engineers melt down completely when faced with an actual interview for various reasons. But I do wonder if I could put this to…",{"value":78,"source":52,"evidence":79},"Free to use, no stated plan for sustaining it.",[80,84],{"id":81,"by":82,"text":83},"7978476","tannerc","I really wish this had existed a year ago when I panicked during an interview. Having this type of practice is ideal in my mind for any type of technical role. 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One small issue: I don't know what I'm getting into when I…",{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"7978271","Centigonal","Good idea! It leapfrogs the scores of existing \"code interview practice tools\" that give you a problem and a text editor and do some auto-validation on your answer by providing a…",{"value":112,"source":52,"evidence":113},"Anonymous human practice beats auto-graded problem sites.",[114,115],{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},{"id":74,"by":75,"text":76},[117,132,143],{"value":118,"source":52,"evidence":119},"Coding interviews themselves are ineffective and poor at measuring ability.",[120,124,128],{"id":121,"by":122,"text":123},"7979195","onislandtime","Dear software professional: if you have been rejected because of a coding interview, don't feel bad or discouraged. It has little to do with how smart you are. Unfortunately,…",{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"7982128","learc83","None of my engineer friends have ever had a Google style technical interview. What makes software so different? You don't ask an electrical engineer to layout a complicated PCB…",{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},"7978605","general_failure","This looks great. These days I skip all interviews which require me to code in the interview. I have plenty of open source code, if they cannot figure how good I am looking at,…",{"value":133,"source":52,"evidence":134},"Practice only teaches gaming interviews, pushing companies to new screens.",[135,139],{"id":136,"by":137,"text":138},"7978630","capkutay","Great...so when everyone does this and becomes good at technical interviews, SV companies will find some other meaningless, high pressure method to screen job candidates. \"Steal…",{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},"7978721","nawitus",">First and foremost, if you're trying to get better at technical interviews, the best way to do that is to actually do it. So to fix problems with signaling there should more…",{"value":144,"source":52,"evidence":145},"Audio reveals gender and background, undermining meritocracy.",[146],{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},"7983186","sequoia","If one of the goals is encouraging meritocracy, I cannot imagine why it was decided to add voice to the interview. From someone's voice I can frequently tell their gender & maybe…",[151,163],{"value":152,"source":52,"evidence":153},"Clearer explanation of how the interview process works.",[154,158,159],{"id":155,"by":156,"text":157},"7978478","saganus","As minor feedback, it would be great if the \"How it works\" section actually contained how it works info. I only see 3 steps that look more like facts than actual \"how's\". Totally…",{"id":104,"by":105,"text":106},{"id":160,"by":161,"text":162},"7981895","minusSeven","Any ideas how the whole thing will be implemented. The site only contains very generic information about it. How are the interviews going to be conducted ? What will be the…",{"value":164,"source":52,"evidence":165},"Chat option instead of audio, with logging.",[166],{"id":167,"by":168,"text":169},"7978429","lazyant","Silly question, why not chat (which can be saved for review etc) instead of audio?",[171,183],{"value":172,"source":52,"evidence":173},"What is the business model and who pays interviewers?",[174,175,179],{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},{"id":176,"by":177,"text":178},"7979409","Estragon","Is there a business model here? Why are the talented engineers running the practice interviews devoting time to this?",{"id":180,"by":181,"text":182},"7979063","mathattack","I wonder where the interviewers will come from. That said, this is a great idea, and also along the lines of the \"Show me a million new jobs\" RFS [0]. 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