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Re:Caltech's CS interview prep course by Apocryphon on Sunday February 27, 2022 @05:26PM (#30493360)
You are talking about the nitty-gritty aspects of actual software engineering. I’m talking about doing away with the redundancy of having to retake the industry-wide Leetcode fizzbuzz portion instead of passing it once.
Re:Caltech's CS interview prep course by majormajor on Sunday February 27, 2022 @05:40PM (#30493497)
I'm asking that since the job itself is wildly unstandardized, how on earth are we supposed to standardize a single "industry-wide" credential for interviews?

There's no "industry-wide Leetcode fizzbuzz portion" - Leetcode and fizzbuzz are famously on complete opposite sides of the whiteboard spectrum! I've only been asked actual fizzbuzz once, and can't immediately think of any other duplicate whiteboard problems I've seen either. Many of them aren't ones I've seen on Leetcode, and would probably be on the "easy" scale there if they were there.

I couldn't pick out any single problem that would make everyone at all my last few jobs happy, let alone the whole rest of the industry.

Re:Caltech's CS interview prep course by Apocryphon on Sunday February 27, 2022 @06:13PM (#30493831)
Leetcode is the new fizzbuzz, I meant.