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Re:Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leet... by jjav on Friday May 20, 2022 @07:30PM (#31453855)
> They're biased, arbitrary, and often quite silly. And they've persisted for a half century.

Half a century? Absolutely not. It's a recent phenomenon (in software jobs).

All through the 90s and 00s it wasn't like this.

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Re:Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leet... by mikelevins on Friday May 20, 2022 @10:46PM (#31454847)
For what it’s worth, it was like this in my interviews at Microsoft in the late 80s.
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Re:Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leet... by curiousllama on Saturday May 21, 2022 @12:05PM (#31459064)
The point is that leetcode is an instance of the class interview_riddles; the class has persisted for a half century.
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