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>Not hiring idiots in the first place is IMO the proper solution to this problem, Presumably leetcode avoids this. what is your opinion about that? Is it effec

• jppope 8y ago
  ...yea except every dev in the game knows thats where to study.
  • scottlegrand2 8y ago
    Indeed, except in 2010 it was topcoder, and they even told me upfront to study it, so I did, for the two months preceding the interview. Several of my interview questions were slight variants on recent topcoder questions. And other than annoying the guy who clearly had some complicated algorithm he wanted me to write that I instead simplified to the quadratic equation, things went well.
• ilikehurdles 8y ago
  Leetcode is something you can study for a couple of months and use fly through the technical portion of an interview. It is also something that good engineers with a decade of experience can totally fail at if unprepared to the same degree. Leetcode questions measure interview study and how far removed you are from college classes, not how competent you are at your job.
  • kamaal 8y ago
    Being good at leetcode means you are good at spending plenty of day hours on interview prep and not real work. Would you really want to hire such a person who does no work all day, and only prepares to move on from current company?