Ask HN: Did preparing for LeetCode type of interviews improve your skills?

Re:Ask HN: Did preparing for LeetCode type of interviews imp... by ozim on Friday May 28, 2021 @09:06AM (#27314886)

Worst was being actively aggressive in their tone shooting questions and approach "well you have an engineering degree, we will see about that". Then there were quite some dismissive with sighing when not getting answers they like to hear.

They could keep it to themselves and go back to their colleagues and nag about "what a waste of time, that guy was".

I am also interviewing people from time to time, but I see it as part of my job not some kind of punishment. So maybe don't push technical colleagues, who are not happy about it, to do it.

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Re:Ask HN: Did preparing for LeetCode type of interviews imp... by zxcero on Friday May 28, 2021 @01:21PM (#27318106)

> "well you have an engineering degree, we will see about that".

Well this means you dodged a bullet early :) It's better they wasted your time for the interview (couple hours or days of preparing?) than months or years of your time working there.

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Re:Ask HN: Did preparing for LeetCode type of interviews imp... by tartoran on Friday May 28, 2021 @02:00PM (#27318545)

Yes, bullet possibly dodged but that still makes it frustrating and a time waster. And these types of interviews don’t expose or test on knowledge needed on the actual codebase. I see it as a cockyness contest which I don’t want to be part of.

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Re:Ask HN: Did preparing for LeetCode type of interviews imp... by ozim on Friday May 28, 2021 @03:23PM (#27319456)

I am quite happy with that dodged bullet, after that I found job I am working now couple years with satisfaction.

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