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What? I'd go so far as to say this is universally incorrect. Having interviewed hundreds of people at multiple companies, at every level (intern to director), I

• dominotw 6y ago
  because if everyone is asking whatever they want there is no way to compare one candidate to another. Most companies require interviewers to pick a question from their internal 'question bank'
  • midev 6y ago
    > because if everyone is asking whatever they want there is no way to compare one candidate to another. That's obviously not true.... > Most companies require interviewers to pick a question from their internal 'question bank' Again, having worked at some fairly big and respected companies, this has never been the case. I'm not interviewing for rote candidates. Everyone is different. Ergo, the questions are different. I could never imagine hiring senior developers and security engineers with questions from a "question bank". If you're just doing boilerplate, you're probably getting very sub-par employees.
    • dominotw 6y ago
      > Again, having worked at some fairly big and respected companies, this has never been the case. https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-experience?currentPage=1&orderBy=hot&query= https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-experience?currentPag... Please take a look at these. I recently interviewed at FB and I got 2 questions in phone screen that were from leetcode with FB tag. > Everyone is different. Ergo, the questions are different. Facebook is running interview factory, they just don't have time to customize interview for each candidate. Their own recruiter told me to practise questions from leetcode tagged with facebook. I agree with you re your reasons for not using a 'question bank' but thats just not the realty.
      • noema 6y ago
        Does leetcode have some partnership with these companies or something? They're basically forcing you to pay their subscription fee to be competitive in in the candidate pool.