Interviews are stressful and can overwhelm even the most experienced candidates. Whether this is your first coding interview or your tenth, you are still likely to be a bag of nerves, but given that this is an important step in getting the job you dream of, it's important that you don't fluff it at the first step. Programmers and developers consider the coding interview one of the toughest interview rounds because it doesn't just assess their ability to make decisions, solve problems, and write code; it also assesses their intelligence, logical thinking, and interpersonal skills.