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Interviews in the Age of AI: Ditch Leetcode – Try Code Reviews Instead

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Re: Interviews in the Age of AI: Ditch Leetcode – Try Code Reviews Instead

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Post by otteromkram »

I like this idea, but still think that time and people watching you will add pressure.

Most coding challenges that non-FAANG companies give aren't terribly hard; they mostly want you to work through your process out loud, ask questions, interact.

These soft skills are as important as technical aptitude in determining whether or not you'd be a good fit with the organization.

Re: Interviews in the Age of AI: Ditch Leetcode – Try Code Reviews Instead

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Post by hotnfresh »

very_good_man wrote: post #3

Leetcode being asked in an interview is a marker of an incompetent organization.

Especially when they don’t pay FAANG money.

If I were capable of looking good during the only experience in my adult life that feels like having a solo in a middle school strings recital, I’d be applying to those places, not yours.

Re: Interviews in the Age of AI: Ditch Leetcode – Try Code Reviews Instead

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Post by swader999 »

I like this article a lot and have had great success with this tactic (as a hiring manager) over the years. I often give a page or two of code as a take home assignment to discuss at the interview. They get a chance to look at it and research it on their own. And they also get a bit of the crucible of face to face thinking and reacting on their feet while you discuss it with them in the interview.

Re: Interviews in the Age of AI: Ditch Leetcode – Try Code Reviews Instead

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Post by christofosho »

For take home reviews, I wonder what the impact of generative AI would be. I can see a lot of people feeding the code segment into an AI and using it's comments instead of generating their own. Of course, people will do that with programming questions as well, so I suppose it's up to the hiring manager to decide on the best method to handle this situation.

What strategies do people leverage to avoid purely AI answers?

Re: Interviews in the Age of AI: Ditch Leetcode – Try Code Reviews Instead

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Post by jgilias »

kemiller wrote: post #4
very_good_man wrote: post #3

Leetcode being asked in an interview is a marker of an incompetent organization.

I agree, but it's near-universal. Not sure what that says about our industry.

That most are incompetent organizations, I guess.

Re: Interviews in the Age of AI: Ditch Leetcode – Try Code Reviews Instead

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Post by CharlieDigital »

otteromkram wrote: post #2

I like this idea, but still think that time and people watching you will add pressure. Most coding challenges that non-FAANG companies give aren't terribly hard; they mostly want you to work through your process out loud, ask questions, interact. These soft skills are as important as technical aptitude in determining whether or not you'd be a good fit with the organization.

    > but still think that time and people watching you will add pressure
When I conduct interviews, I always try to set a conversational tone from the very beginning. Code reviews in general lend themselves more to a conversational interaction and discussion rather than trying to read, process, construct, and respond in a coding challenge.

Re: Interviews in the Age of AI: Ditch Leetcode – Try Code Reviews Instead

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Post by napo »

swader999 wrote: post #6

I like this article a lot and have had great success with this tactic (as a hiring manager) over the years. I often give a page or two of code as a take home assignment to discuss at the interview. They get a chance to look at it and research it on their own. And they also get a bit of the crucible of face to face thinking and reacting on their feet while you discuss it with them in the interview.

why opting for an "home assignment" instead of doing that as part of the interview?
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