"Maybe somebody can explain this better to me -- but if you freeze up in interviews, are you also going to freeze up in developer meetings? During code reviews? When you're in the room with clients?"
No because the interview process is designed to uncover where you're weak. It's a systematic way to figure out what you DON'T know. Other situations are not (at least not overtly).
For someone with inferiority or self esteem issues, this can be a very threatening situation, and totally artificial and unlike a normal working relationship where your intellect and skills get the benefit of the doubt most of the time.
Interviews strip away that easement and raise even the slightest possibility that you might be full of shit. For most people that's easily managed by their ego but for others, not so much.
No because the interview process is designed to uncover where you're weak. It's a systematic way to figure out what you DON'T know. Other situations are not (at least not overtly).
For someone with inferiority or self esteem issues, this can be a very threatening situation, and totally artificial and unlike a normal working relationship where your intellect and skills get the benefit of the doubt most of the time.
Interviews strip away that easement and raise even the slightest possibility that you might be full of shit. For most people that's easily managed by their ego but for others, not so much.