I can relate to this. I had this recent technical interview where they told me that my solution is wrong. Hours after the interview, I tested their solution only to figure out it was wrong while mine was actually correct. They tricked me a bit just to test how well I know what I did. My fault I didn't even bother to ask more time to internalize the solution they showed to me. Great read!
Ugh that's rough. Personally, I think that's a cruel interview tactic — especially for juniors who actually produce the correct answer. As a new dev you tend to assume that the person interviewing you is more experienced than you are (at least I did), and you don't necessarily expect trick questions. I would've done the same thing!
Lesson learned: take your time and question everything. Hope you land somewhere great!
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I can relate to this. I had this recent technical interview where they told me that my solution is wrong. Hours after the interview, I tested their solution only to figure out it was wrong while mine was actually correct. They tricked me a bit just to test how well I know what I did. My fault I didn't even bother to ask more time to internalize the solution they showed to me. Great read!
Ugh that's rough. Personally, I think that's a cruel interview tactic — especially for juniors who actually produce the correct answer. As a new dev you tend to assume that the person interviewing you is more experienced than you are (at least I did), and you don't necessarily expect trick questions. I would've done the same thing!
Lesson learned: take your time and question everything. Hope you land somewhere great!