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That's the whiteboard interview in a nutshell. Standard problems given to everyone and asked to answer them in a standard way. Done in person to lower the chanc

That's the whiteboard interview in a nutshell. Standard problems given to everyone and asked to answer them in a standard way. Done in person to lower the chance of cheating. The same reasons whiteboard interviews are problematic will apply to any test done at scale.

laboo 6y ago
Not standard questions. Companies switch away from a problem as soon a it becomes known they use it. They want a problem the applicant has never seen before. And I'm saying, it's not because they are testing for intelligence -- they will help you through it if they like you -- it's because they want you to struggle with it. Which gives them the right to use their gut to decide.
- marcinzm 6y ago
  That's not been my experience at all. Companies keep using the same problems that are on leetcode or some minor variant of it. More to the point, in many places companies don't assign problems, the interviewer has full leeway in doing that. They will keep using the same problem since they have a rubric for how people perform on it.
  - laboo 6y ago
    I have never worked at a FAANG, but people I know who do, and give interviews, tell me that questions get banned.
    - nullsense 6y ago
      If that's the case eventually every leetcode question will be banned and the problem will have resolved itself.