Are there any companies that allow you to purchase a "mock" interview session? My ideal would be a situation where someone with hiring experience conducted several interviews with me, giving me feedback each time.
Thanks!
I have been running mock interviews on Twitch for the last couple of months now, and the responses are incredible.
You can check out previous interviews on the YouTube[1] channel.
You can also hop by the Twitch[2] channel. I usually stream three times a week at 8 pm PST.
The interviews are 100% free and offered as a community resource. You can maintain anonymity as well. Feel free to jump on the discord [3] if you want to schedule one
[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuFT6CtDnOGvcn9WdAvBusA
Triplebyte (https://triplebyte.com/iv/afyYdFu/cp , referral link), if you can make it to their final video interview, will also give you full feedback whether or not you pass, for free. They don't do whiteboarding but they do live coding and debugging.
There are a few general tips though... the biggest of which is to talk out loud. They're not necessarily wanting a full solution to the problem (although it helps); the interviewer wants to know how you think, whether or not you can code decently, and if you test. (You prove the last part by running an example through your code while talking about it to find and fix any bugs.)
Check out Cracking the Coding Interview (https://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming...) for more of this. It's a very good book. Pairing its problems with an actual whiteboard and a timer is a close approximation to a real interview.
Having done quite a bit of interviewing for programmers/tech writers I would say most people are not natural with live coding and whiteboard work. I personally was lost without Emacs and a compiler to hand. My last white-boarding session that was part of an interview was just horrible (writing Java code on a whiteboard) - I did get the job though so even if it's painful all is not lost.
Like anything though you get better with practice (as you are doing). If you've got a whiteboard at home I would do impromptu sessions where you write up say tree creation and traversal, doubly-linked lists or whatever is appropriate for the job. If you've got a coder friend you can run things by that's even better.
Also, make sure your GitHub page has got some meat there.
Good luck!
You can get super cheap "panel board" (will last ~ 1 year of use for 12$)
(if in US found at home depot)
Practice. Solve problems on a whiteboard. Set one up.
Once you are used to writing code by hand, try solving standard interview problems.
Final task will be learning to verbally communicate during this, at that point its useful to ask for help.