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Re:A guide to learning algorithms through LeetCode by mettamage on Sunday August 16, 2020 @02:40PM (#24180071)
According to the believers it is an unbiased way of predicting whether people are capable for the job. Google has done a lot of tests and these style of interviews predict job performance best [1].

Assuming this is true then to me it means that universities and work experience are too heterogeneous as a measure of job performance.

In my experience that is true. Not sure how well the argument holds up if everyone is simply going to study algorithms though.

[1] clement mihailescu says it on his YT channel somewhere in a vid.

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Re:A guide to learning algorithms through LeetCode by TrackerFF on Monday August 17, 2020 @06:34PM (#24193044)
> [1] clement mihailescu says it on his YT channel somewhere in a vid.

The "co-founder and CEO of AlgoExpert, a website that helps Software Engineers prepare for technical interviews." argues that algorithmic / technical interviews are the best predictors for future job performance?

Well color me shocked.

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Re:A guide to learning algorithms through LeetCode by username90 on Sunday August 16, 2020 @04:43PM (#24181135)
If you work at google you can go find those studies yourself, they are public internally. At least you could when I worked there.
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