Bombing

It’s genuinely traumatizing when you go into a coding interview feeling confident, solid in your knowledge and ability to apply it, and then watch everything fall apart. You’re given a question that’s a bit trickier than you’re used to, or perhaps your brain simply malfunctions under the pressure, and suddenly it’s like you’ve forgotten everything you knew prior. If you were given the chance to solve the problem alone, you’d ace it. But in the context of the interview, your mind goes blank and you make mistakes that you’d never otherwise make. The whole experience makes you feel like maybe you don’t actually know what you thought you knew. You’re drowning in the cringe of claiming to know how to code, and then bombing in front of people who are there to determine your employment worthiness. It messes with your head.