Re:Hiring Developers: How to avoid the best
by emodendroket on Monday September 06, 2021 @04:26PM
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Have you ever actually been asked to implement a sorting algorithm or balance a tree from memory? I've done a lot of whiteboard interviews, including at some of the Big Ns, and I can't say I ever experienced this, despite those exercises being used as a kind of metonym for whiteboarding.
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Re:Hiring Developers: How to avoid the best
by disgruntledphd2 on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @03:50AM
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It was mostly a joke, I'm a DS so I get arbitrary take homes rather than leetcode.
The more general point is that the algorithmic approaches from leetcode problems have not a lot of relation to what most programmers do all day, and as such, are less useful as a work-sample test.
Doing a take-home where you fix some bugs would probably work better (i.e. more correlated with outcomes) than leetcode interviews.
Re:Hiring Developers: How to avoid the best
by emodendroket on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @10:24AM
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Well I think this is an important point, because the tests, IME, are asking you to apply the concepts to solve a toy problem, not to actually implement stuff like sorting algorithms from memory. The latter is indeed unrealistic, but the former is something my job actually does entail.