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I-Interviewer; C-CandidateI: Apart from what you have mentioned in your resume, any other quality that you possess?C: Sir, i possess great convincing skills.I: Please elaborate.C: When it comes to convincing someone, i present my ideas in a structured and logical manner. I give compelling evidence to support my point of view. I also try and present what might go wrong, if action contrary to what I suggest is taken. And all that I say with complete conviction and belief. As a result, I have found that almost always I am able to convince my subject and I have earned a name for myself in my peer group for this talent.I: That's very nice.C: Thank you sir.I: Can you convince me of something?C: Sure sir.I: If you do, you are surely selected. You have my word. But i should be convinced at the end of your attempt.C: I'll do my bestI: Very well. Convince me that you should NOT be selected for this Institute.Perfect example of Catch 22. Logical enough?

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I fell asleep during my interview.This was for a Two Sigma onsite interview during my sophomore year, where the onsite process consisted of breakfast, two technical interviews in the morning, lunch, followed by three “HR” (more like behavioral) interviews in the afternoon, going from 9 am until almost 5 pm.Some factors that didn’t help me: I had flown in the night before, setting my alarm for the wrong time (and consequently had 2 minutes to pack my clothes), as well as making it to the San Diego Airport in record time for my 7 am flight (courtesy of my roommate), boarding the plane with 3 minutes left to spare. There was also a thunderstorm in New York when I arrived, so I didn’t reach my hotel until 9 pm, and thus didn’t sleep til like 1 or 2 am EST. Stressful and long travels to New YorkThe first two technical rounds went smoothly, and by some miracle I was able to make it to the HR rounds after lunch, where I was constantly grilled on conceptual concepts of CS, as well as past internships and projects and experiences. These should really be renamed behavioral rounds, but whatever.The first HR round went well, but it was the second HR round where I started to feel a bit tired. At this time, it was about 3 or 4 pm and the afternoon food coma started to hit, as well as lack of coffee, lack of sleep the day prior, being in the office since 9 am, and the PST to EST time zone changes all started to kick in, and I realized my eyes were drooping.I tried to fidget as much as possible, pinching myself, to try and shake myself out of the coma, and slowly managed to make it through the questions about inheritance in Python and what is an abstract class (while getting roasted by my interviewer because apparently the only difference between an abstract class and regular class in Java is the keyword abstract), and made it to the final part of this interview, asking the interviewer questions.This is where everything went downhill, I asked my interviewer about “some of the achievements/accomplishments that he had done while at Two Sigma”, and he proceeded to give me a 5–10 minute speech about everything he had worked on, from scaling the infrastructure to fixing everyone’s bugs and how he had some certification from Oracle that indicates that he is a “Java professional” (clearly I wasn’t since I thought an abstract class differs from a regular Java class because it has to have at least one abstract method/can’t be instantiated), and the passivity of hearing him drone on and on eventually led me to nod off. (I wanted to end it as soon as possible because of how tired I was, but I didn’t want to be rude either and wanted to ask a few questions to see his experience at Two Sigma)(This isn’t me but it’s pretty much what happened)My interviewer woke me up - “Are you sleeping? Get some coffee” before shaking my hand and leaving the interview room.Although the last HR round went well, I was fidgeting yet again to try and make sure I wouldn’t fall asleep again, and I have no idea what that interviewer thought of me, considering I was constantly moving in my effort to stay awake.Once we heard back about interview results, from comparing my results with the other interns I learned that I was the only intern candidate who made it to the HR round of interviews and yet was waitlisted, and my guess is that I had good performances on the first and third rounds, and a terrible performance on the second round, which was why I was waitlisted and not rejected.The main takeaways for me - long onsites really suck. Flying to NY to take an interview the next day is draining. Food comas are and always will be a problem for me. From a Java compilation perspective an abstract class differs from a regular class because of the keyword abstract. And almost missing your flight is a very stressful experience.But more importantly, it’s important to be prepared for interviews not just on the interview preparation side, but also on the physical side - having a healthy sleep schedule, balanced diet would have definitely helped my physical stamina and would’ve helped me stay awake and avoid possible food comas.