What I would like to say is "If it takes more than one on-site visit, then I'm out", but I know in the end that I'd have to deal with it because as a job seeker you have no choice. The hiring process and job market is a small but not insignificant part of why my life goal is be to be my own employer. I don't like to be at the mercy of interviewers and be judged by how I perform whiteboard coding in an extremely stressful situation.
The hiring process and job market is a small but not insignificant part of why my life goal is be to be my own employer. I don't like to be at the mercy of interviewers and be judged by how I perform whiteboard coding in an extremely stressful situation.
People say this all the time, but is an interview really more stressful than starting your own company? You impress a few interviewers with a bit of code on a whiteboard that you reviewed the afternoon before. Big deal. How is that any more stressful than having to impress generally much larger groups of people to give you money?
Stressful is putting in months of work and still not making it. Stressful is worrying that your latest update is going to piss off your best customer or mess up a possible upcoming sale. Stressful is seeing a deadline that has to be met in order to get the next sale done. I could go on. I guess what I'm saying is that if a whiteboard coding session stresses you out then you're going to have a tough time being your own employer.
It's all about perspective, and frankly a whiteboard coding session sounds like a good time at this point.
Meh. Short-term versus long-term are different kinds of stress. Actually, having months or years of "job-in-potentia" riding on a 45-minute interview is packing on the stress a bit.
It's a very different kind of stress. Might be different for you, but an interview for me is like running for your life from a lion while trying to solve a Rubik's cube. I can code, but I find that I'm unable to perform very well in those situations. The financial stress and the stress of getting something done in time is something I handle pretty well in comparison. I would also like to emphasize that it's a "small" part of the reason, not a very big one.
