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Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by howinteresting on Friday December 16, 2022 @10:32PM (#34024260)
The coding challenges are basically IQ tests that have been laundered into something tangentially relevant to the job, since actual IQ tests for employment are on shaky legal ground in the US.
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Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by chihuahua on Friday December 16, 2022 @10:49PM (#34024401)
That's the best explanation for Leetcode interviews that I've seen.
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Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by howinteresting on Saturday December 17, 2022 @01:05AM (#34025273)
It's an open secret. Everyone within the FAANGs knows what the tests are for, even if many of them won't admit it.
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