How to Fail Your Next Coding Interview

If you’d just studied the 500 LeetCode problems we suggested you would be more than prepared!

High salary be damned! You’re over it. LeetCode. AlgoExpert. Interview Kickstart. Suck a lemon. 🍋

You peruse your LinkedIn inbox, scouring over the dozens of unread messages from recruiters. You click on a semi-recent one. “I’ll take it.”

The recruiter replies immediately. Your interview for Front End Developer at BurBur.io, a popular startup with a valuation of 1B is next week.

“It’s a burrito finding app” the recruiter types. “Like Uber… for burritos”.

“Mmmmm” you type back. “Burritos.” 🌯

Burritos indeed.

You’re set on failing this interview to stick it to the man by wasting the valuable time of their overly paid engineers.

You plan on failing in just a few easy steps ->

1. BurBur.io is a popular company and Glassdoor would certainly give you some insight into past interviews. It probably even has some of the questions and answers verbatim! Absolutely not going to check that out.
2. Blind.com — it’s like Glassdoor but for tech… and with a lot of uncensored tech bros bragging about their TC (total comp). If you wanted some raw, uncut advice on the interview process you might go there — maybe even reach out to a current employee and ask what to expect. You delete the app…