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Admittedly, this is a bit of an exaggerated conclusion. It is definitely possible that some subset of top CS MIT students would get anxious about coding intervi
by capocannoniere 9y ago
Admittedly, this is a bit of an exaggerated conclusion. It is definitely possible that some subset of top CS MIT students would get anxious about coding interviews and would go to interviewing.io to hone their skills.
However, the following types of top students are significantly less likely to practice on interviewing.io, for example:
- Seniors who have already done internships at top companies (Google, FB, Stripe, etc)
- People who excelled at programming contests and generally enjoy algorithmic challenges: IOI, TopCoder, Project Euler, etc.
- People who have built awesome open-source projects that got significant recognition. For example, Feross Aboukhadijeh was a Stanford student who built Youtube Instant and immediately received an internship offer from Youtube founder Chad Hurley [1]. I doubt people like him would need to practice on interviewing.io
- In general, students who are regarded as top n% of MIT/Stanford/CMU CS are inundated with recruiting pitches (I speak from experience as a CS graduate from one of these universities. Most of us constantly received an overwhelming number of e-mails from recruiters, many of them offering to get us to get fast-tracked in the interview process).
Granted, not every top CS student at MIT/Stanford/CMU has done competitive programming or built really cool stuff that's widely recognized. But a significant percentage of the top n% of students do have this kind of background (admittedly, this is somewhat of a circular definition of "top" student). That's what I mean by selection bias.
[1] https://feross.org/youtube-instant-media-frenzy/ https://feross.org/youtube-instant-media-frenzy/