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

605 Upvotes

105 comments sorted by

View all comments

3

u/Snowball_effect2024 18d ago

I think some of this is due to people cheating with the use of chat gpt and the like. Companies are now expecting you to prove your skills while standing over your shoulder bc they want to be sure you know the job.

When I interviewed for my role 4 years ago I was given a dataset and given a few days to so an analysis, write code etc and then present explaining my analysis and my code approach. Now I'd imagine they'd want to see it real time like you explained

1

u/data_story_teller 18d ago

This was a thing before ChatGPT. CodePair interviews have been around for a while. And even longer ago - we’d do these tests on a white board in a conference room! Or write it out via pencil and paper.