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I enjoy that this assertion is made with essentially no attempt to justify it, it's just said matter-of-factly as if it's just obvious truth. Well, let me speak at least for myself: Absolutely not.
I would disagree with this premise. Leetcode identifies people who have just finished cramming for Leetcode questions. You don't need logical reasoning abilities to solve Leetcode, just encyclopedic knowledge of algorithms and data structures
Leetcode is just a proxy for an IQ test. That's it. If you can study up and do well on leetcode, then you're smart. People getting hung up on how realistic the questions are, or whether you ever need to implement X data structure are confused. Fact is that no job can give a reasonable test for how it is to work there short of working there. There's team dynamics, developer / project fit, etc etc. All you can ever do…
Leetcode is effectively the opposite, because each one is usually a CS paper by itself, which by definition took a very hard problem a long time for a very smart person to create and test the solution.
You cannot practically invent the a leetcode solution from whole cloth if you treat it like an IQ test question should be done. It's a sport and you get good at sports via drills until it become muscle memory.
Leetcode is just a proxy for an IQ test. That's it. If you can study up and do well on leetcode, then you're smart. People getting hung up on how realistic the questions are, or whether you ever need to implement X data structure are confused. Fact is that no job can give a reasonable test for how it is to work there short of working there. There's team dynamics, developer / project fit, etc etc. All you can ever do…
What? No. You need to practice to be truly effective at Leetcode.
The reason big companies use these interview methods, is because they have to interview tens of thousands of candidates per year. None of the common alternative interview methods that get tossed around can scale to thousands of applicants.
If you are the type of person who writes a big brain log(n) solution instead of n solution when there is no real reason (compute wise) and the log(n) is a pain in the ass to maintain. I hope I never see you in my team.
if even low parameter LLM can solve most of these leetcode examples that cost nothing to run, why are we using it to discriminate applicants to measure "how badly do you want the $250k/year"
It's almost like the people hiring are optimizing for masochists and there lies the devil, you want hyper-rationality because they are the easiest people to manipulate and brainwash.
Highly sensitive and type B personality aren't going to sit around and let them trade their life to destroy or trap large number of the population with addictive algorithms or drone target selection.
Matter of fact IQ was invented specifically to filter out the most programmable minds, you wouldn't be able to run a country's intelligence agency without being able to brainwash people or a corporation. The promoters at the helms are usually the exact opposite of the producers, unwavering, unforgiving, uncompromising.
Aren't there supposed AI tools out there for cheating on these standardized tests?
I have always seen LeetCode problems as effectively hazing rituals in a job interview setting. A high pressure interview situation simply won’t bring out peak problem-solving capabilities in many people. At best you get some superficial insight into someone’s problem solving methodology, but at worst you filter out otherwise excellent fits for not being able to solve an ultimately inconsequential problem under pressu…
Creativity gets in the way of leetcode... Leetcode requires focus; you need to recall only the most relevant techniques for the problem, if you're being too creative and see too many possible solutions and you try to identify the most optimal one, it will slow you down and you will run out of time.
I tend to do better if the problems are more difficult with more time given. I'm built for solving difficult problems without hard time constraints. I'm bad at solving easy problems within limited time slots.