Hello HN,<p>I have recently completed my bachelors degree and have started interviewing, however, I am having a hard time with phone interviews that require you to code.<p>I seem to get very flustered and cannot think properly and therefore under perform greatly during the phone interview+coding stage of the interview process. I get stuck on a question with a mental block and after the interview is often I immediately think of the perfect solution. I'm not use to having what feels like someone breathing behind my back watching me code.<p>Any tips would be greatly appreciated!
Practice!<p>Coding in an interview is unlike any kind of programming you have probably done so it's only natural to freak out a little. Personally the whole exercise of writing code not on a computer is bizarre enough on its own!<p>Find some problems that you might expect to be asked and then actually code them up on a white board or at least with a pen and paper. Bonus points for getting a friend to ask you questions.<p>here's a nice looooong blog post basically saying the same thing: <a href="http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-google.html" rel="nofollow">http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog...</a>