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Re:Poll: Is the leetcode grind necessary to land a high payi... by indymike on Thursday January 27, 2022 @08:18AM (#30100170)
Best guess is someone else did the work and explained it to them.
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Re:Poll: Is the leetcode grind necessary to land a high payi... by Aeolun on Thursday January 27, 2022 @08:30AM (#30100304)
You’d pop that bubble in a few directed questions wouldn’t you?
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Re:Poll: Is the leetcode grind necessary to land a high payi... by hallway_monitor on Thursday January 27, 2022 @09:33AM (#30101015)
You definitely can but it's not easy. These people are really good at bullshitting, that's why you have to back them into a corner. The simplest way to do that is to have them prove, live in the interview, that they can write code.
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Re:Poll: Is the leetcode grind necessary to land a high payi... by marcosdumay on Thursday January 27, 2022 @09:46AM (#30101173)
You mean stuff like asking what type a function returns?
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