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I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews

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Re: I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews

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Post by emodendroket »

angoragoats wrote: post #618
emodendroket wrote: post #617

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I'm rejecting your characterization of "leetcode-style" questions as 1) irrelevant 2) primarily about simply implementing some obscure data structure (as opposed to correctly using data structures).

I'm sorry if I wasn't clear; I didn't mean to say that all LC questions are irrelevant. I was just asking if you're claiming that no company uses LC questions which are irrelevant. Because if you are, that seems like a pretty difficult claim to prove given all the stories out there on every company review/discussion site like Blind or Glassdoor. And my "implement a quadtree" example was hyperbole; again I'm sorry if…

Because the interviewers themselves typically have wide latitude to select the actual question, no, I don't think such a thing can be claimed. But I'd say the majority of questions asked are reasonable ones that can plausibly be solved in the timeframe and the majority of interviewers I've observed from that side of the table have not expected perfection or wanted their candidates to fail.

Re: I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews

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Post by beej71 »

hiAndrewQuinn wrote: post #573
beej71 wrote: post #445

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But you hired them at-will, right? The bad hires I've seen that are existential threats were only there because management refused to fire them.

"At-will", he says to the expat to Finland. I wish . It's nearly impossible for me, or any FTE I know here, to get fired. (To be fair, I have never to my knowledge been considered 'a bad hire' by anyone except Home Depot.) But in fact even in at-will situations, firing aversion seems to be a real and expensive issue that all kinds of managers in organizations face [1] [2]. So, in one sense I agree, bad hires are exis…

I've never had to fire a bad employee. So every time has been awful. But I would have gleefully fired the bad ones had I the authority to do so. :)

Re: I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews

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Post by angoragoats »

emodendroket wrote: post #621
angoragoats wrote: post #618

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sorry if I wasn't clear; I didn't mean to say that all LC questions are irrelevant. I was just asking if you're claiming that no company uses LC questions which are irrelevant. Because if you are, that seems like a pretty difficult claim to prove given all the stories out there on every company review/discussion site like Blind or Glassdoor. And my "implement a quadtree" example was hyperbole; again I'm sorry if…

Because the interviewers themselves typically have wide latitude to select the actual question, no, I don't think such a thing can be claimed. But I'd say the majority of questions asked are reasonable ones that can plausibly be solved in the timeframe and the majority of interviewers I've observed from that side of the table have not expected perfection or wanted their candidates to fail.

I don't think I (nor most others commenting here) were claiming that the questions couldn't be solved in the timeframe, that interviewers expected perfection, or that they wanted candidates to fail. So I'm not really sure why you brought that up.

Re: I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews

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Post by throwaway99210 »

djeastm wrote: post #423
concordDance wrote: post #121

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I disagree with this. I can solve the majority of leetcode hard problems in under an hour despite not having seen them before and I'm far from the smartest person I've met.

I don't know you or the people you've met, but if you can do this without studying the questions before and the solutions are performant, then I would put you in the "very smart" category

If someone claims they can solve Leetcode hard problems without studying the questions and the solutions beforehand, then I would put them in the "full of shit" category
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