Leetcode Considered Harmful
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Leetcode Considered Harmful
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Re: Leetcode Considered Harmful
#2I took the pill (what color were you supposed to take again?). I'm prepping for the leetcode interviews. If my opinion counts for anything, don't change the interview format now. How will i get my time back that I've spent learning how to use hashmaps with java-specific syntax? My notebooks full of pseudocode are waiting to be converted into a leetcode-time-limit friendly programming language. Dont tell me it's actually Python, not Java. A man can only stoop so low.
Re: Leetcode Considered Harmful
#3I took the pill (what color were you supposed to take again?). I'm prepping for the leetcode interviews. If my opinion counts for anything, don't change the interview format now. How will i get my time back that I've spent learning how to use hashmaps with java-specific syntax? My notebooks full of pseudocode are waiting to be converted into a leetcode-time-limit friendly programming language. Dont tell me it's actua…
It is: taking the red pill. That also happens to be a good book.
Re: Leetcode Considered Harmful
#4I've never heard of an effective alternative to Leetcode though.
We're engineers.
If you don't like something, make something better.
Take home projects and how many marbles in a jar are extraordinarily worse than traversing a binary tree.
I suspect that any interviewing practice will always being in detractors. It's a process of culling, those culled will dislike it.
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#5I've never heard of an effective alternative to Leetcode though. We're engineers. If you don't like something, make something better. Take home projects and how many marbles in a jar are extraordinarily worse than traversing a binary tree. I suspect that any interviewing practice will always being in detractors. It's a process of culling, those culled will dislike it.
I much prefer take home projects relevant to the job I would be performing than leetcode style puzzles.
I dislike leetcode style puzzles so much that I will simply drop out of the interview loop rather than subject myself to them.
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#6I've never heard of an effective alternative to Leetcode though. We're engineers. If you don't like something, make something better. Take home projects and how many marbles in a jar are extraordinarily worse than traversing a binary tree. I suspect that any interviewing practice will always being in detractors. It's a process of culling, those culled will dislike it.
I much prefer take home projects relevant to the job I would be performing than leetcode style puzzles. I dislike leetcode style puzzles so much that I will simply drop out of the interview loop rather than subject myself to them.
So you don't like to solve 2-3 leetcode style problems but would rather work a weekend on a project.
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#7I've never heard of an effective alternative to Leetcode though. We're engineers. If you don't like something, make something better. Take home projects and how many marbles in a jar are extraordinarily worse than traversing a binary tree. I suspect that any interviewing practice will always being in detractors. It's a process of culling, those culled will dislike it.
I much prefer take home projects relevant to the job I would be performing than leetcode style puzzles. I dislike leetcode style puzzles so much that I will simply drop out of the interview loop rather than subject myself to them.
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#8While I'm not in favor of LeetCode-style interviews, I recently had a fairly pleasant interview process with a company that used these coding challenges. The twist was that they were all camouflaged as scenarios that resemble their own business, instead of some random unrelated concept. I found that their effort to make the questions look relevant made it much more pleasant for me to actually feel engaged and solve them.
I did get an offer from them though, not sure how I would have felt if rejected.
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#9I've never heard of an effective alternative to Leetcode though. We're engineers. If you don't like something, make something better. Take home projects and how many marbles in a jar are extraordinarily worse than traversing a binary tree. I suspect that any interviewing practice will always being in detractors. It's a process of culling, those culled will dislike it.
I much prefer take home projects relevant to the job I would be performing than leetcode style puzzles. I dislike leetcode style puzzles so much that I will simply drop out of the interview loop rather than subject myself to them.
Please no. I don't want to work 10 hours on some project for free.
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#10Does anyone have actual metrics about whether this stuff works or not?
All I see is anecdote after anecdote in both directions.
In god we trust, all others must bring data.