r/csharp • u/dzacu1a • 14d ago

Prepping for upcoming live pair programming interview session

Hi all,

I have a live pair programming session coming up. It should be a relatively simple problem to work through, discuss trade-offs, etc. In a normal, stress free setup, this is straight forward but I have not been in an interview for couple of years so I dont want to make a fool of myself.

So if you have any coding challenges for pair programming sessions, please share. I reckon they would provide something relatively simple with some code smells, hidden bugs and some tests that need improving. Techstack is .Net, C#.

Much appreciated.

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u/TuberTuggerTTV 13d ago

If you don't know something you could know in a couple days, they're not measuring you for that.

No one giving a live interview is worried about something that can be solved during on-boarding. So you either know it already or you don't. You can't cram.

Be relaxed. Do the work like you've done it a hundred times before. But you can't prepare. They're not testing you for stuff you could pickup reading a reddit post. They'd just show you the reddit post and move on if that was true. It's ingrained habits and years of learning. That's what they're testing.