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This is a great way to start off a business relationship with dishonesty and cynicism. Enjoy your career.
Can I have some of that ‘work through tens or hundreds of coding problems that are of no future relevance to me’ dishonesty and cynicism?
Fraud on resumes is very common.
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Many people say this. But the reality is that solving 100 LC questions and actually understand the solution enough to solve a variation of the problem is a lot of work. Especially if you are working full-time. I wouldn't call that "game it", just usual study and hard work.
When gaming it is just passing by studying, a repeatable process that anyone (with a CS degree) can do, just means the interview process is quite well designed. The interview process is a test of endurance, not intelligence. And it should be exactly that, since software engineering is mostly an exercise of endurance and focus. Every time a friend of mine QQs about failing a FANG interview, I give them the study presc…
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When gaming it is just passing by studying, a repeatable process that anyone (with a CS degree) can do, just means the interview process is quite well designed. The interview process is a test of endurance, not intelligence. And it should be exactly that, since software engineering is mostly an exercise of endurance and focus. Every time a friend of mine QQs about failing a FANG interview, I give them the study presc…
That's pretty presuptuous. Do you truely believe that working at a FAANG company requires the same amount of 'edurance and focus' as working at a non FAANG company _and_ spending several hours every week practicing coding skills?
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The interviewers are ideally trying to get a sense of how you think through problems, not just that you can spit out an answer you know. At least that's what they say.
So does struggle equate to working through a problem? I don't think it does.
> After being given the algorithm problem, ask for the specific runtime your solution will need to have. Almost certainly, the interviewer will tell you. In my experience, interviewers will rarely tell you the runtime of the optimal solution. Regardless, very interesting blog post.
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> In my experience, interviewers will rarely tell you the runtime of the optimal solution. I agree. As an interviewer, I genuinely want each candidate to do well and I think that, on balance, setting a specific complexity goal is likely to do more harm that good. For a strong candidate, it could limit their opportunity to shine by narrowing down the solution space and discouraging them from exploring tradeoffs (e.g.…
In my experience, "no solution at all" is already the default. When people choke on questions it is because they get stuck trying to guess at what you want, and panic thinking it must be some clever trick they don't recognize. Becasue we've all seen a million tricks and forgotten most of them. If you're happy with just getting it done quick and dirty, at least as a start, then telling them so is obviously better than…
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That's pretty presuptuous. Do you truely believe that working at a FAANG company requires the same amount of 'edurance and focus' as working at a non FAANG company _and_ spending several hours every week practicing coding skills?
Seriously. Many people coast while collecting $. Acting like work at a FAANG is some ultra-endurance test is a joke.
Interviews are really a dumb game these days so if you want to really game it you can go with a statistical approach: * Practice questions by company on LeetCode, sort by frequency of last 6 months and work down the list, do maybe 75-100, the list updates once a week * Search for the company on the LeetCode forums and sort by most recent. If a question is not on LC yet it will likely get posted there, so you can get…
This is a great way to start off a business relationship with dishonesty and cynicism. Enjoy your career.
Or don't agree to interviews that include algo challenges, leetcode/hackerrank nonsense, array shuffling shenanigans. Choose companies that put thought into their evaluations.
Just my $0.02: I'd much rather spend a few weeks refreshing basic data structures and algorithms than doing the "non-algo" challenges I've gotten because they feel way less objective than getting questions where there's a correct answer. Most of the time the alternative to non-algorithm questions is some form of take home assignment that's usually multiple hours long and that you get no feedback on or chance to corre…
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I’ve gotten interview questions I’d recently solved and my problem was it was too easy. I had trouble acting like it was the right amount of struggle. Is there a trick for that?
I've interviewed folks for FAANG roles. If you know how to solve the problem already, just tell the interviewer up front. Either they have another question or they will go deeper into a discussion about why and how you solved it the way you did, testing it, other approaches and why they are or are not good tradeoffs, etc. It's pretty obvious to interviewers if you've solved a problem before, and we appreciate the hon…
I'm struggling to imagine a definition of "adversarial" that would make this true. You have two parties with conflicting goals.