Ask HN: Devs who passed whiteboarding at FAANG: how do you feel about it?

Re:Ask HN: Devs who passed whiteboarding at FAANG: how do yo... by wffurr on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @07:32AM (#31906400)

The stereotypical false positive is a competition programmer who aces whiteboard puzzles and leetcode type problems but isn't actually a good software engineer. They fall down at all the other parts that aren't clever programming.

Thankfully those are usually junior hires and can often be mentored into a good or excellent engineer.

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Re:Ask HN: Devs who passed whiteboarding at FAANG: how do yo... by mountainriver on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @09:39AM (#31907528)

There are also lots of people who are just bad engineers but memorize Leetcode problems. Most of Leetcode is memorization, and most of the people I see get hired at Leetcode establishments aren’t good engineers.

It’s just a bad test, why are people so hung up in it? Cause Google does it?

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Re:Ask HN: Devs who passed whiteboarding at FAANG: how do yo... by Icathian on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @10:03AM (#31907797)

People are hung up on it because it's the gate to making ridiculous amounts of money doing what we all enjoy.

Also, because there isn't really a "good" option for interviewing (especially at scale), the door is always left open for endless circular debates on the topic.

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