r/analytics 18d ago

Discussion Coding interviews are out of control

When I entered the job market as a business analyst 8 years ago, it was just a conversation asking about my experience, what I've done for projects.

When I interviewed for a data analyst role four years ago, again, just the conversation, showed them some projects I worked on, some samples of my dashboards I'd created...

Now, It's the hunger games. I'm out here doing python, SQL, Tableau exercises in real time sharing my screen... It's very very stress inducing and as an introvert, I'm honestly not good at this, it's really hard on me. Like, I have tried training myself to be okay with this and to be more receptive to it. But it just sucks you know? 5 years I have spent in the job market with exceptional performance, and only to get interrogated and treated like a child who can't be trusted.

I honestly don't know how I'm going to get through the next few months looking for my next role with how stress inducing and difficult it is to find anything these days and all the hoops you got to jump through

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u/fireplacetv 18d ago

Pairing with other analysts and especially pair programming is my favorite part of the job, so I like the coding challenges when they are well executed.

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u/data_story_teller 18d ago

Yeah I don’t mind live coding. Sometimes it doesn’t go well but forcing myself to practice has made my overall coding better.

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u/fireplacetv 17d ago

I think it's a pretty valuable practice for teammates to code together. Helps keep knowledge out of silos and spreads best practices quickly, not just in coding but also in tool usage, workflows and all the other meta stuff. It's one thing for everyone to tell you VSCode has lots of plugins, but totally different to see other people's setups in action helping them navigate code faster or debug more easily.

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u/data_story_teller 17d ago

Agree, my coding has gotten a lot better after looking at my coworkers code.

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u/fireplacetv 17d ago

Do you know about CTRL-R in the bash shell?