Re:The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid home...
by mncolinlee on Friday April 20, 2018 @12:33AM
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This. I noticed that I have gone for over fifteen years through some pretty tough jobs, but never needed to write any Leetcode binary tree problem from scratch in thirty minutes in my work while being questioned. I normally freeze up because I worry about current best practices every step of the way.
In the end, I scored a job with a FAANG company literally because I didn't want to work there. A friend warned me away before the interview for work-life reasons, but I decided to go ahead with the interview anyway as practice and I nailed it. There's no reason to stress if you don't want the job. Another friend who worked there later convinced me to take the offer.
What bothers me is: you're basically the same coder both before and after competitive coding practice. You're only more marketable with the same skills.
Re:The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid home...
by preordained on Friday April 20, 2018 @06:29AM
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>What bothers me is: you're basically the same coder both before and after competitive coding practice. You're only more marketable with the same skills.
Yup. You keep keep measuring that thing..I don't think you're measuring what you think you're measuring.
This is why advice for passing the Google/etc. interview usually boils down to: Quit your job for a month and do competitive coding, and you will pass with ease.