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Re:I Am So Sick of Leetcode-Style Interviews by kristopolous on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @05:01PM (#40578888)
No. The point is the correlation is poor between the two sets AND there's equally quantifiable things with higher correlation.

If I genuinely wanted a job again all I'd do is go to one of those drilling game websites for a few nights and then say whatever the interviewer is looking for.

Any test I can fail one day and pass 3 days later that is ostensibly supposed to assess whether I have skills that take 15 years to master is total bullshit.

Re:I Am So Sick of Leetcode-Style Interviews by alexey-salmin on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @02:07AM (#40581830)
What you complain about is a false-negative error: an engineer with 15 years of experience can't pass these tests unless he prepares for 3 more days. That can sometimes happen, yes.

The initial stated problem was different: false-positives, bad engineers practicing for 6 weeks will pass the test. That I seriously doubt is a real thing. If they managed to learn that fast, they must be good. They could be junior-good -- that's perfectly fine, you need to hire juniors too. You don't judge seniority solely based on leetcode results.