One of the companies I interviewed with ended up restoring my faith in technical interviews.

Before the interview, they had me check out a GitHub repo in my language of choice, get familiar with the code base and asked me to show up with the repo loaded to my favorite IDE.

1/n During the interview, my interviewer opened up a storyboard, picked a story to work on and we paired on it - with me taking the lead. This made a ton of sense to me because that’s closer to what I’ve done in my day-to-day job which ended up making me feel comfortable.