Timed online assessments (HackerRank, CodeSignal) wreck me way more than the actual onsite
I can solve these problems fine when I'm relaxed. Put a 70-minute countdown on the screen and my brain just... leaves. Last one I misread the constraints, burned 25 minutes on the wrong approach, and never recovered. Onsites where I can actually talk to a human go so much better.
Is it just reps until the timer stops mattering, or are there tricks? Do you read all the questions first, or start immediately on #1?
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AnonymousAnon The clock is its own skill, separate from the coding, and the only fix I found was reps under the clock. I did timed sets until the ticking stopped hijacking my brain. Also read all the problems first, bank the easy points, and don't let one hard one eat your whole window. It's as much test strategy as it is coding.
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AnonymousAnon Reading all of them first saved me. I skim everything, solve the one I'm most confident on to bank points and calm down, then go back for the rest. Starting on #1 blind is how I used to blow the whole budget on the hardest problem. The timer stops mattering way sooner than you'd think once you've done ~10 of these under real conditions.