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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.
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.
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.
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…
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?
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?
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 you will have people watching you work and you will be under time pressure in normal work as well, so if you just turn to spagetti at interview are you actually going to perform any better at day to day?