Re:Stop Interviewing with Leet Code
by Sakos on Thursday June 09, 2022 @05:13AM
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Man, I would rock that so hard and I wish more companies would do this. My current job did a live coding exercise in the interview, which went okay. The interviewer gave me a chance to iterate on the code and improve it after our call and send it by email an hour later. My solution by then was far better than what I'd had at the end of the interview, once I had a chance to gather my thoughts in peace and think everything through thoroughly.
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I've had a couple of sysadmin-interviews which were pretty interactive.
You're presented with a laptop connected to a remote VM, and told "Fix MySQL", or "Rewrite the git history in this repository".
Usually these are simple problems, which have obvious solutions. Every now and again you might get a surprise like an immutable-bit set on a file, or SELinux blocking access to specific files/paths, but the good thing about these kind of "challenges" is that you'll usually also have full google access.
I guess l33tcoding isn't really a thing for sysadmins, but I do appreciate a (fair) simple test like that, especially being given the opportunity to talk through the process.