Ask HN: Failed interview, feeling unemployable and depressed – what do I do?
So the way you feel about interview puzzles is how most people feel about them. It&#x27;s -stupidly- rare for people to &#x27;figure out&#x27; the question in an interview; even those who appear to are just dredging it up from having seen it somewhere. A lot of those style questions are things that took someone weeks to figure out originally, and while we may be better equipped than they were, and so able to figure them out faster now, they were doing it in the comfort of their own homes, not in an interview. You&#x27;re not dumb, you&#x27;re just being compared against people who handle interviews better, and those who have seen the problem before.<p>Keep looking. Seriously. There are a LOT of jobs out there for technical people. You found -one- opportunity; maybe it would have panned out, maybe it wouldn&#x27;t have. But it sounds like you&#x27;re limiting where you look, if you were going to go from one Big 4 company to another. Talk with your wife; maybe you want to go to another state? Maybe take something remote? There are a lot of possibilities to explore. Many interviews may lead to failure, but others may lead to an offer.<p>Talk to your wife about how you&#x27;re feeling, too.