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I wonder which other professions or trade ask people to perform infront of them in a simulated env as a filter criteria. Actors for sure with auditions and maybe maybe chefs, male pornstars.
Only male?
I would like to give a try, but I am getting this for India: My name is Aline, and I'm the founder of interviewing.io. Thanks so much for your interest. It looks like you’re not in a country where we’re open for business yet, so we can’t create your account, but we’ll add you to our waitlist.
How did your site know my first/last name when I gave my email address to create an account and clicked the confirmation link you sent?
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People keep saying this, but no one ever shares any meaningful data to make their case. Tech companies have been using Leetcode-style interviews to hire programmers for decades, and have grown in value from nothing to trillions of dollars in that time. The industry as a whole is worth tens of trillions, and the software these fake Leetcode programmers have built has eaten the world. Large companies have all spent bil…
I used to agree with the anti-Leetcode sentiment like the OP, but changed my tune fairly quickly once I started doing actual production-grade software engineering that goes beyond just simple CRUD and realized the things that Leetcode tests are applicable everywhere. It just kinda clicked one day for me and I started passing Leetcode assessments. Sure, some interviews are pretty hard and some algorithms/data structur…
And if you have a specific industry need to invert a binary tree or fill 8 containers with 32 differently sized boxes or whatever then go nuts. But I have found working through a 30 minute exercise with the candidate, asking them to explain their thought processes, and listening to what questions they ask is much better than just giving them 30 minutes to bash their head against a problem.
It is more effort for the interviewer though because it cannot be automated. But it does allow you to scale the interview by asking things like "What would it take to make your code thread safe? Imagine 4 threads. Now imagine 1000, what would you change?", etc.
I wonder which other professions or trade ask people to perform infront of them in a simulated env as a filter criteria. Actors for sure with auditions and maybe maybe chefs, male pornstars.
Not that I agree with absurd interview process of software development but they often see themselves more akin to attorneys than tradesmen. The difference being attorneys have to pass a bar exam and even trades have journeyman cards to provide credibility.
Software development has none of that. Real engineering has PE licenses but how do you achieve that in such a broadly scoped field of software development?
We either play the interview game or find a way around it.
'Principal' developer at my last place spent 100 consecutive days grinding leetcode. Shortly after had an interview where they made him do a leetcode test live and he failed it. The whole thing is broken.
Principal Engineer level shouldn't even be tested on leetcode. There are far more important things to know about that candidate.
I wonder which other professions or trade ask people to perform infront of them in a simulated env as a filter criteria. Actors for sure with auditions and maybe maybe chefs, male pornstars.
Welders, millwrights, machinists, carpenters, lots of trades have qualifying interviews. I’ve taken written exams in interviews for machining and welding as well as hands on show me parts. Not that I agree with absurd interview process of software development but they often see themselves more akin to attorneys than tradesmen. The difference being attorneys have to pass a bar exam and even trades have journeyman card…
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Principal Engineer level shouldn't even be tested on leetcode. There are far more important things to know about that candidate.
I interviewed at Amazon for a principle engineering position - got the interview as my resume has some pretty high profile accomplishments. But they just asked me leetcode questiins all day. I don't practice leetcoding so needless to say I didn't do well. Everyone there looked tired and worn out, probably dodged a bullet.
Hot take: these interesting, contained problems that you really can solve on your own are a finite resource, and every time you read the solution to one you permanently deplete that resource for yourself.