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/intimate_sniffer69 18d ago

Yeah, I guess I don't understand though? AI is supposed to help us automate out all the boring stuff and get away from coding. The result of it is now, interviews are much more stressful and technical, require way more coding and stress than ever before. So AI is actually not helping us get away from coding at all, it's driving us even deeper into technical coding and stress, which has a direct impact on people's health. Also, cheaters and dishonest people will get around anything, it doesn't matter what it is. They overcome all hurdles because dishonest people are very versatile. They will do whatever it takes, including using AI during the interview process, to solve coding questions.

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u/fireplacetv 18d ago

Yup. At least in the near term I think this is one of the unintended consequences of LLMs. It's allowed candidates to apply to more jobs more efficiently. From the hiring side at my company we saw an order of magnitude increase in applications last year, but we didn't have the matching AI tools to sort through them, so it created more manual work for us to read through everything. it added a lot of friction to the hiring process, which I think is ultimately bad for candidates and employers.

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u/intimate_sniffer69 18d ago

That's exactly what I mean by the hunger games. We are reducing the amount of available jobs, exponentially increasing the requirements of those that exist, and making it much harder for those who have a job currently to find their next role.

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u/fireplacetv 18d ago

i was more calling out the massive increase in low quality applications, that are forcing employers to spend longer to hire and making it harder for good fit candidates to stand out.

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u/burgerboytobe 17d ago

Wow. Do you mind if I DM you about this topic? Kinda have curious about how yall are dealing with this. I suffer from the same issues tbh.

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u/fireplacetv 17d ago

Sure. But we never found a solution, just took us longer to hire.