Reprogramming my Mentality in Technical Interviews
I have an on-site interview tomorrow, and have decided that I am going to approach the technical component a little differently than I usually do. It's easy, in an interview situation, to feel like I am in a position where the wrong answer could tank my career, and it's pretty obvious that that mentality is not going to be helpful. Instead, I am going to approach my technical interview as though I were getting to spend an hour debugging/problem solving with a partner, which is something that I love to do. While I was in Launch Academy, I would take an afternoon "break" from studying and ask in Slack whether anyone in my cohort would like an extra set of eyes on a problem. It was a lot of fun listening to someone else walk me through what they wanted their code to be doing, and help them strategize how to get there from what the code was currently doing. If I can approach a problem in a technical interview like one of those afternoon "breaks," hopefully...