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No. Should I invoice them? I'm still livid about it. The kicker is the position pays a max of 60-120k euros, the maximum being what I made 5 years ago.
TBF that's a pretty top tier salary for Europe.
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The LC interviews are like testing people how fast they can run 100m after practice, while the real job is a slow arduous never ending jog with multiple detours and stops along the way. But yeah that's the game you have to play now if you want the top $$$ at one of the SMEGMA companies. I wrote (for example) my 2D game engine from scratch (3rd party libs excluded) https://github.com/ensisoft/detonator but would not b…
5 years ago you'd have a project like that, talk to someone at a company for like 30m-1hr about it, and then get an offer.
The faangs jump and then the rest of the industry does some dogshit imitation of their process
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It's funny because this repo really does seem vibe-coded. Obviously I have no reason not to believe you, but man! All those emojis in the install shell script - I've never seen anyone other than an AI do that :) Maybe you're the coder that the AI companies trained their AI on. Sorry about the job interview. That sucks.
I used AI for the Docker setup which I've already done before. I'm not wasting time on that. Yeah you can vibe code basic backend and frontend and whatnot, but you're not going to vibe code your way to a full inverse kinematics solution. I'm not a math/university educated guy so this was truly "from the ground up" for me despite the math being simple. I was quite proud of that.
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Did you mean to type 25? 5 years ago LC challenge were as, if not more, prevalent than they are today. And a single interview for a job is not something I have seen ever after 15 years in the space (and a bunch of successful OSS projects I can showcase). I actually have the feeling it’s not as hardcore as it used to be on average. E.g. OpenAI doesn’t have a straight up LC interview even though they probably are the m…
There's an entire planet of jobs that have nothing to do with leetcode. I was talking about those, not FAANG stuff. Unfortunately I am not FAANG royalty. >Of course some still do, like Anthropic were you have to have a perfect score to 4 leetcode questions, automatically judged with no human contact, the worst kind of interview. Should be illegal honestly.
I can't imagine this kind of entitlement. If you don't want to work for them, don't study leetcode. If you want to work for them (and get paid tons of money), study leetcode. This isn't a difficult aristotelian ethics/morals question.
I implemented the simple greedy algorithm and immediately fell into the trap of the question: the greedy algorithm only works for "well-behaved" denominations. If the coin values were [10, 9, 1], then making 37 cents would take 10 coins in the greedy algorithm but only 4 coins optimally (10+9+9+9). That's a bad algorithm, then, not a greedy algorithm. Wouldn't a properly-implemented greedy algorithm use as many coins…
> Wouldn't a properly-implemented greedy algorithm use as many coins as possible of a given large denomination before dropping back to the next-lower denomination? Yes, and it won't work on the problem described. The greedy algorithm only works on certain sets of coins (US coin denominations are one of those sets), and fails in at least some cases with other coin sets (as illustrated in the bit you quoted).
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I used AI for the Docker setup which I've already done before. I'm not wasting time on that. Yeah you can vibe code basic backend and frontend and whatnot, but you're not going to vibe code your way to a full inverse kinematics solution. I'm not a math/university educated guy so this was truly "from the ground up" for me despite the math being simple. I was quite proud of that.
So what was the issue the CTO had with vibe coding? Had you disclosed to then that you used LLMs for coding "basic" features outside the math and whatnot?
>Had you disclosed to then that you used LLMs for coding "basic" features outside the math and whatnot?
No it seems completely immaterial. I'll happily talk about it if asked but it's just another tool in the shed. Great for scaffolding but makes me want to rip my hair out more often than not. If it doesn't one-shot something simple for me it has no use because it's infuriating to use. I didn't get into programming because I liked writing English.
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> If someone solves a leetcode hard with a constraint solver and you don't hire them, you are an idiot. I do hope you're exagerating here, but in case you aren't: this is an extremely simplistic view of what (software) engineers have to do, and thus what hiring managers should optimize for. I'd put "ability to work in a team" above "raw academic/reasoning ability" for the vast majority of engineering roles, any day.…
> I'd put "ability to work in a team" above "raw academic/reasoning ability" for the vast majority of engineering roles, any day. In this hypothetical, why do you do leetcode hard interviews?
I thought I already answered that:
>> Not that the latter doesn't matter, of course, but it's by no means the one and only measure.
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Its not really memorizing solutions. Yes you can get quite far by doing so but follow ups will trip people up. However if you have memorized it and can answer follow ups, I dont see a problem with Leetcode style problems. Problem solving is about pattern matching and the more patterns you know and can match against, the better your ability to solve problems. Its a learnable skill and better to pick it up now. Persona…
Leetcode with no prep is a pretty decent coding skill test The problem is that it is too amenable to prep You can move your score like 2stddev with practice, which makes the test almost useless in many cases On good tests, your score doesn't change much with practice, so the system is less vulnerable to Goodharting and people don't waste/spend a bunch of time gaming it
This framing of the problem is deeply troubling to me. A good test is one that evaluates candidates on the tasks that they will do at the workplace and preferably connects those tasks to positive business outcomes.
If a candidate's performance improves with practice, then so what? The only thing we should care about is that the interview performance reflects well on how the candidate will do within the company.
Skill is not a univariate quantity that doesn't change with time. Also it's susceptible to other confounding variables which negatively impact performance. It doesn't matter if you hire the smartest devs. If the social environment and quality of management is poor, then the work performance will be poor as well.
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Why would you ever want to work somewhere that clearly employs such unqualified individuals? And not only that, but allows those individuals to be the face of their company to prospective hires? A company's interview process tells you a lot about how the company thinks and operates. This was was surely a dumpster fire.
Because you're unemployed and need to work to get some money.
Do you think you're a super intelligent person when you couldn't even figure that out?
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No. Should I invoice them? I'm still livid about it. The kicker is the position pays a max of 60-120k euros, the maximum being what I made 5 years ago.
Probably too late now unfortunately. The job market is brutal right now, and you have my sympathy. I hope you can find a good fit soon.