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Why do you think person capable of making doom run in such an environment is incapable of basic tree operations?
I suspect the technical interview devolves into an act of shunting the blame of potential bad hires away at some places. Elite credentials and leetcode shibboleths serve the same purpose: this person has checked the boxes we've agreed upon as important in the hiring process, regardless of the job duties. If they turn out to be a bad hire, who could've known, esp. with that Ivy League bachelor's degree? It's less the…
>If they turn out to be a bad hire, who could've known, esp. with that Ivy League bachelor's degree?
No one got fired for buying ibm...