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I agree with you, but I have heard the opposite from some people. They like being able to memorize programming interview books and grind problems on LeetCode/Ha
by sotojuan 11y ago
I agree with you, but I have heard the opposite from some people. They like being able to memorize programming interview books and grind problems on LeetCode/HackerRank instead of having a portfolio or other alternatives.
- voltagex_ 11y agoI may have to break down and hop on HackerRank. Have you heard of https://codility.com/ https://codility.com/?
- sotojuan 11y agoI haven't but I will check it out! From my time at /r/cscareerquestions, LeetCode is the "hardest" and thus the best for top companies. HackerRank is good but every challenge requires parsing STDIN instead of just giving arguments to a function the user writes. It's very annoying to me and a deal breaker, especially with certain languages.
- hobolord 11y agoyeah the first time I had an technical interview with hackerrank I had to go google how to do i/o in Python
- ucho 11y agoI can't understand why HackerRank gained such popularity. Among many similar sites it has lowest quality of problems, especially input/output specification. The "pay for more test suites" strongly reminds me Pay to Win ...