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Great idea! The best two engineers I've had the pleasure to work with were both 45+ years old. They had a cool head when shit hit the fan, and were generally un
by sergiotapia 7y ago
Great idea! The best two engineers I've had the pleasure to work with were both 45+ years old. They had a cool head when shit hit the fan, and were generally unfazed about technical problems. "Been there done that, let's do this right." If your company is discriminating against older engineers you're making a big mistake!
Now can we get a "no leetcode" job board? My favorite companies give you a take home, of a real world problem, vertical slice of what you're expected to do day to day.
- tidwall 7y agoWhat is “leetcode”?
- erik_seaberg 7y agoThey don't want to write code during the interview. Some complain about needing to practice, which I can't understand. Me, I'm pushing 50 and I'd be wary of joining a team who got hired without writing code.
- pmiller2 7y agoI despise Leetcode style problems because I think being asked to give an impromptu CS lecture is not a great interview technique. I wrote code in the interview for my current job, but it wasn’t “find the longest palindromic substring of a given string in linear time.”
- tidwall 7y agoSo leetcode is code that is written by the interviewee during an interview? Sounds tough. I never had to do that. I would probably clam up and fail.
- Stratoscope 7y agoThat is related, but leetcode is actually a website dedicated to these kinds of interview problems: https://leetcode.com/ https://leetcode.com/
- sergiotapia 7y agoNo, I don't want to solve leetcode style questions. Give me normal takehomes or at worst normal problems to solve on the computer.
- akoumis 7y agoLeetcode.com is a website where you practice FAANG-style interview questions