Ask HN: Getting over interview anxiety?
People will tell you to practice, which is fine, but the bigger issue is that companies are being stupid by interviewing anyone this way, period.<p>By all means, practice is good for you. But also try looking for companies that don’t involve unrealistic time pressure combined with trivia-oriented tech questions. Your experience at your current employer proves such jobs exist, and indeed they exist at many types of companies with good job offers.<p>Just decline the ones that do use algorithm puzzles &#x2F; whiteboard questions &#x2F; etc., and include your constraints about how you will be evaluated just as you would include constraints about salary, insurance, job duties, etc.<p>You’re not interviewing to get out of the rain: it’s about getting what you want in exchange for providing value to the employer.<p>If part of what you want is to be treated with basic dignity and respect while being evaluated during an interview — something incompatible with trivia &#x2F; hazing style interviews that are ubiquitous in the tech industry — then just own that choice, be proud of it and straightforward. Just politely tell interviewers it does not work for you, accept that you may need to opt out of a lot of interview pipelines, and you’ll find options better suited to you.