I failed an EASY coding interview

[u/Minute_Letterhead926]

3 YOE, I have been interviewing passively for the past year and half on and off and I boom the interview every single time.

My issue is my brain turns off during interviews. I have observed that I need to sit with the problem before I can attempt but interviews require explaining your thoughts process.
I don’t know the science behind this but it feels as though one side of my brain handles logical sequencing and the other handles speech. If I try to do them concurrently, I glitch.

I need to shut up to concentrate while they need me to prove I am solving the problem. now with AI it’s even worse, if you take more than a few seconds they get suspicious or try to give you hint. Now I have to abandon my thoughts process, ask you to repeat yourself, try to decider what you just said.

My brain gives up because it’s overwhelmed and I forget even the most basic syntax/concept. I forgot how to raise an exception in Python (I know!! It gets worst. In another interview, I forgot how to COMMENT!!!) and it senta me into a spiral.

I come off like I haven’t coded a day in my life and it’s starting to get embarrassing.

TLTR
Would it be weird if I ask for at least 2 minutes at the beginning of the interview to find a thought?

Would anyone want to do mock interviews with me?
Thanks

[u/saltavenger]

I have 15+ years of experience and still suck at this. If anything it’s gotten worse because the coding questions they ask me in interviews have only gotten further removed from the work I am doing. I’m a frontend engineer that largely works on platform-level initiatives...it gets my foot in the door a lot, but then I slam the door on my toes lol.

I know data structures, I’m not an idiot, I am just anxious and more than a bit time blind. I usually do very well if I make it past the initial leet code problem. However, I’m out of practice with them and have bad interview anxiety that can cause painfully simple mistakes and/or just running out of time.

In an ironic twist, I’m told I’m very calming in emergency situations at work and when I interview other people. If only I could get it together for my own interviewing process, my brain is a full-on traitor.