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My recent interviewing experience, while anecdotal, would suggest that you'd actually be better off with the coding challenge sites, assuming that succeeding at
by arwhatever 9y ago
My recent interviewing experience, while anecdotal, would suggest that you'd actually be better off with the coding challenge sites, assuming that succeeding at interviewing is your goal.
I think this is unfortunate, irrational, and that contributing to Github projects would actually build your practical skills while adding some value to the universe.
But having spent more time working on coding challenges, algorithms and puzzles would have been more beneficial to my most recent several interviews.
- DavidWoof 9y agoIt's a trade-off. One thing that's definitely going to get you more and better interviews is a section on your resume that lists major open-source projects you've contributed to. But yes, once you hit the interview you still might hit the old-style puzzle questions depending on the company.
- whatyoucantsay 9y agoWhat top companies exist that don't ask candidates to solve coding challenges?
- balls187 9y agoYou don't need to make a trade off. You can do both contribute meaningfully to an open source project AND practice on Codewars.
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