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Gosh, I don’t enjoy that there is so much competition in this space. I can’t compete against people who essentially seem to have no life or other interests than getting job at Big N (or enjoy competitive programming). It feels like this culture has ramped up in the last 5-10 years. When I started interviewing, the questions were easier. It feels like they’ve gotten more difficult - or at least the answer the intervie…
Thanks for the write up and git book. Related question: I’m curious if any has game-ified algorithm learning, sort of like those old educational math games targeting certain grade levels. Might be cool to make a point and click adventure centered around dynamic programming or greedy algorithms.
For example CodeForces, AtCoder, TopCoder, and even LeetCode have rated contests
Can you imagine having to learn all this just to make a connection to a database, process some data, and then persist it somewhere?
But it might come handy when implementing - route optimization problems - Building database query optimization engine You can argue that not everyone is implementing these from scratch every day. But it could be argued that given an opportunity, an engineer should have the skills and ability to build these systems.
It has been my personal experience, and the experience of many people I’ve spoken with, that this kind of trivia is learned in order to get a job and then forgotten immediately afterwards because it’s useless.
Anecdotal example: a former colleague is an incredibly talented systems programmer and has had to study leetcode garbage for the last few months in order to feel qualified to interview for a position with a team that he had previously been on at an older employer.
As another commenter said elsewhere, these types of questions are used because they’re legal proxies for “IQ tests”, and because they filter for people who are willing to sacrifice much of their personal time for the sake of the company.
Can you imagine having to learn all this just to make a connection to a database, process some data, and then persist it somewhere?
But it might come handy when implementing - route optimization problems - Building database query optimization engine You can argue that not everyone is implementing these from scratch every day. But it could be argued that given an opportunity, an engineer should have the skills and ability to build these systems.
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I wonder if that isn’t the point, to increase developer retention and reduce competition for devs.
It would be a "tragedy of the commons"-like effect for companies that don't adhere. I would guess that is just an unintended effect and that there is no master plan behind making recruiting expensive, slow and inaccurate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
It's becoming obvious to me that my time is better spent learning to solve these riddles rather than actually becoming a better developer. I have a job search coming up at the end of the year and whilst I've managed to largely avoid companies that ask this type of question, I believe it's seriously constraining my career. I can't speak for everyone but the whiteboard interview has prevented me from leaving jobs earli…
I was working on a “startup”/kinda just unemployed for two years. I studied leetcode hard, and got hired into a 300k a year job at FAANG. I know nothing about testing, git, software process, roll outs, dev ops, etc. I barely know how to do software engineering. What an idiotic hiring process.
I have yet to be invited for so much as an HR call when it comes to FAANG (bachelor/master CS from a Dutch university). Maybe I'm not getting past the application tracking system?
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I was working on a “startup”/kinda just unemployed for two years. I studied leetcode hard, and got hired into a 300k a year job at FAANG. I know nothing about testing, git, software process, roll outs, dev ops, etc. I barely know how to do software engineering. What an idiotic hiring process.
Do you think it's unlikely for you to learn those skills quickly? People who have all those skills earn over $300K at those companies.
I hope the parent makes the best of it and becomes good at the craft, it will make the job a lot more enjoyable even if it may not be the fastest way up the ladder.
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I was working on a “startup”/kinda just unemployed for two years. I studied leetcode hard, and got hired into a 300k a year job at FAANG. I know nothing about testing, git, software process, roll outs, dev ops, etc. I barely know how to do software engineering. What an idiotic hiring process.
Do you think it's unlikely for you to learn those skills quickly? People who have all those skills earn over $300K at those companies.
This is really cool. What order are the chapters in? Seems intense to lead with dynamic programming.
I got really good at dynamic programming problems but then none of the companies I interviewed with asked me a dynamic programming problem. These were large tech companies and well funded startups. Perhaps it was just luck.
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I was working on a “startup”/kinda just unemployed for two years. I studied leetcode hard, and got hired into a 300k a year job at FAANG. I know nothing about testing, git, software process, roll outs, dev ops, etc. I barely know how to do software engineering. What an idiotic hiring process.
How did you get past the resume screening? Or are you from the US, because then it's much easier to get past the screeming, or so it seems. I have yet to be invited for so much as an HR call when it comes to FAANG (bachelor/master CS from a Dutch university). Maybe I'm not getting past the application tracking system?