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Discussion on: Reflections on my first technical interview

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Allen Shin

Hi Gio,

I appreicate you taking the time to give me your perspective to help clarify some of the things I was trying to voice from my experience.

I agree with your point on being relaxed, I think at the end of the day, I was leaning to being in that mindset, mainly because you can't think when your mind is anxious. I also, appreciate you sharing your desire to help interviewees, I think this helps understand the interviewers' perspective and to overall trust you guys more, haha.

As for memorizing an 'act', I agree. It's definitely easier to memorize a solution for a type of problem, than to actually understand the problem and the solution, so you can better understand how those apply to specific situations. I feel like this is mostly due to my lack of experience/practice, and also creating good habits like understanding the problem before I choose to code and try out a half-baked solution.

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Gio

Yea, of course! I think its awesome that you're sharing this with the world. Reflecting in public like this takes a lot of courage and is very useful for others. So my hat's off to you 🤘🏻