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Re:Brian Kernighan Reflects on "The Practice of Programming"... by carterdmorgan on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @05:45PM (#40931842)
My last interview cycle I interviewed with some big names (Stripe, Square, Shopify, etc.) and was pleased that none of them asked any LeetCode style questions. All pretty practical programming stuff. Stripe had an interview where they had forked the Jackson Java library, introduced a bug, and then asked me to find and fix it. Pretty unique style, but much more applicable to the actual job of programming.
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Re:Brian Kernighan Reflects on "The Practice of Programming"... by goosejuice on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @08:39PM (#40932822)
That's a clever interview question, but wouldn't that suffer from diffing origin/main? Or was this a in person / on screen interview with no git history?
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Re:Brian Kernighan Reflects on "The Practice of Programming"... by carterdmorgan on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @09:49PM (#40933118)
It was an on-screen virtual interview, so while I believe they had scrubbed the Git history, you weren't allowed to look it up.
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Re:Brian Kernighan Reflects on "The Practice of Programming"... by surbas on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @09:31PM (#40933036)
I would say that I would hire that person if that was the solution. That said maybe repo wasn’t included in interview. (Would be even better if person figure out how to diff against a new clone)
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Re:Brian Kernighan Reflects on "The Practice of Programming"... by HumblyTossed on Thursday July 11, 2024 @10:56AM (#40937465)
> Stripe had an interview where they had forked the Jackson Java library, introduced a bug, and then asked me to find and fix it.

I think I would actually enjoy an interview like that.

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Re:Brian Kernighan Reflects on "The Practice of Programming"... by senderista on Thursday July 11, 2024 @04:49PM (#40940499)
In my most recent interviews with Apple and Amazon there were no LeetCode questions after the phone screen. Quite a change from previous experience.
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Re:Brian Kernighan Reflects on "The Practice of Programming"... by supriyo-biswas on Friday July 12, 2024 @02:22AM (#40943111)
What are they asking these days and what positions was this for (i.e. a senior role?)
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Re:Brian Kernighan Reflects on "The Practice of Programming"... by senderista on Saturday July 20, 2024 @12:46AM (#41014139)
For the Apple interviews it was all systems programming stuff, e.g. "implement mmove", "read integers off the wire preserving endianness", etc. Amazon was much more focused on behavioral stuff (i.e. their leadership principles) and system design.

This was for Amazon L6 and Apple equivalent, nothing very senior.

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Re:Brian Kernighan Reflects on "The Practice of Programming"... by dogbait on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @01:17PM (#40988095)
Really? In my Amazon interview last month for a SWE position they asked a LeetCode style question after the initial phone screen about writing a social network data structure (a directed graph) and then asked me to write a method to traverse it to n-depth.
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Re:Brian Kernighan Reflects on "The Practice of Programming"... by senderista on Saturday July 20, 2024 @12:44AM (#41014128)
I did have an internal referral from an SPE so it's possible my experience wasn't typical.
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