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Re:Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @01:00PM (#30181300)
no, still doesn't work for me though.
Re:468 Capital raises $400M to back European startups on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @05:01AM (#30160570)
with a lot of people in tech eyeing to move the opposite direction what made you come to Europe?
Re:An Algorithm for Passing Programming Interviews (2020) on Monday January 03, 2022 @04:15AM (#29778823)
Having been on both sides of interviews but fortunate enough to no have to do leetcode interviews I have a genuine question for those that do.

Why do them?

Are you really facing those problems frequently enough at FAANG to have know them? Is it uppity engineers? Gatekeeping? Or are you just getting so many applicants that you have to filter somehow and leetcode interviewing has some nice properties (easy to apply remotely, can be done by engineers, strong pass/fail criteria).

Genuine interest. Ignore the negative subtext, that's just me on this subject.