I’m currently going through a bunch of technical interviews for software roles, and live coding is the part I’m most nervous about. I’ve heard too many stories of people completely freezing and narrating their panic out loud. What’s the most awkward thing a candidate has done during a live coding session, and what would you have preferred they did instead in that moment?

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Ahaha it also happened to me in one of my first interviews that I froze and couldn't code a simple challenge. I think some of it is luck, but most of it is having experience in interviewing, there is no way around it, you need to interview for a while to get used to it because this is not something that happens when you are working as usual.

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