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Re:Hiring Developers: How to avoid the best by tartoran on Monday September 06, 2021 @01:04PM (#28435744)
If you hate leetcode refuse to apply for jobs that require it. I’ve never had a leetcode session and never will, yet I switch jobs every couple of years (im more on the backend side, not sure how much that matters). There are other ways to land a job. Recommendations from past coworkers seems to be a good way for me so it’s good to be in some kind of network. Perhaps your unemployment gap is what holds you back. You should do something about that as in obfuscate it somehow to not look like a redflag when someone is glancing at your resume. Also don’t mention your ADHD regardless of how good a coder you are.
Re:Hiring Developers: How to avoid the best by brailsafe on Monday September 06, 2021 @04:28PM (#28437695)
You must be rather lucky. Being in a similar position to parent, almost all companies will do leetcode or leetcode style homework now. It's too cheap and easy for them not to, when you cna literally just pay HackerRank to generate a test for you and send it to thousands of people.
Re:Hiring Developers: How to avoid the best by the_only_law on Monday September 06, 2021 @07:10PM (#28439116)
> If you hate leetcode refuse to apply for jobs that require it.

The problem is outside the big companies everyone knows, it’s hard to get documentation on a companies interview process.

Glassdoor exists, but often is little help, as there’s a complete lack of information about the actual process, it seems too included only people who didn’t get an offer complaining about something that may or may not apply to you, etc.

Even the sites made specifically for aggregating those sorts of companies often fail. I’ve looked at them and seen stuff like “X company, but only very specific team” or “Y company”, but when people talk about them nowadays, they seem to have switched to utilizing leetcode or similar for screening or something. And god forbid you out any filters on.

Re:Hiring Developers: How to avoid the best by jjav on Thursday September 09, 2021 @03:07AM (#28467106)
> If you hate leetcode refuse to apply for jobs that require it.

Very much this. I've never actually done a single leetcode problem and never will. Recruiters will tell you what the interview process is like (if not, just ask). If it is based on whiteboard puzzles like this, just refuse. Be sure to tell them why you're not interested!

We can improve the maturity of hiring in this industry but only if we collectively refuse to participate in these bad practices.

Re:Hiring Developers: How to avoid the best by egfx on Thursday September 09, 2021 @10:59PM (#28477284)
Very much not this in the frontend development world! By the way I had this same thought (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17080251)

As long as newbie frontend engineers out of coding bootcamp continue dominating the hiring market this will never change. It's factory mentality.