Re:Show HN: I made a job board that doesn't allow HackerRank...
by humanlion87 on Friday January 01, 2021 @01:53PM
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Yes, Google doesn't use Leetcode per se for interviews. What the parent commenter was referring to was that Google interview questions are of the type for which Leetcode has become famous for.
Re:Show HN: I made a job board that doesn't allow HackerRank...
by bosswipe on Friday January 01, 2021 @03:35PM
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> The Google interview is heavily based on data structures and algorithms
That's pretty much what Leetcode is. When I interviewed at Google I was asked tree traversal and hashmap design questions that were very similar to leetcode questions.
I'd be extremely surprised if Jeff Dean (at any point in his employment) would fail a SWE interview loop at Google. The Google interview is heavily based on data structures and algorithms, and Jeff Dean likely knows them cold.
Sure there's always a degree of luck, and Google errs on the side of false negatives, but there are certain people that are so high above the hiring bar that luck becomes too tiny a factor to be relevant.