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That depends on the company you are wanting to work at, though. I refuse to work at companies that give those kinds of bullshit puzzle interviews.
by t0mbstone 8y ago
That depends on the company you are wanting to work at, though. I refuse to work at companies that give those kinds of bullshit puzzle interviews.
- maerF0x0 8y agoThat's almost the entirety of the bay area.
- aequitas 8y agoFor me, moving to the bay area would be a bigger problem than these kinds of interviews anyway. All interviews I have done the lasts years didn't involve code challenges.
- dominotw 8y ago> I refuse to work at companies that give those kinds of bullshit puzzle interviews. Good luck finding a job then. All companies of all sizes and locations do this.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoUm, no, they don't. I know of at least one exception - the one I work at. And I'm part of the interviews for our team, so I know how they're done.
- dominotw 8y agoAh ok. I 've been interviewing bunch of places recently. All of them seem to have identical format. I remember there a site I saw here HN that listed companies without whiteboard interviews. Can't think of the name.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoOh, no, we do whiteboard interviews. But they aren't those kind of stupid puzzles. We just have candidates write a little code, and do a little design. The "write a little code" is not one of those leetcode questions - it's really a simple problem. We just want to watch them code, and to hear what they're thinking as they do it.
- ryall 8y agoThis is the way to do it. How an applicant applies process to problem solving and communicates their ideas, is way more important than being able to regurgitate bubble-sort.
- dragonwriter 8y agoI don't apply to many jobs (I've got a tolerable one and am picky about location and other things), but the one startup tech job I applied to didn't do puzzles, they did do a screenshared coding portion, but it wasn't a puzzle kind of thing.
- jackconnor 8y agoIsn't this all of them?