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This is really interesting. On a previous company my coding test was "build a contact manager application with python and Vue.js" and I really loved that! It wa

by _benj 6y ago

This is really interesting. On a previous company my coding test was "build a contact manager application with python and Vue.js" and I really loved that! It was something I could do in less than 10 hours or so. The role was full-stack web dev and I got it. I've been considering screening companies based on what their hiring process is. How do you think that could be assessed, say, companies that eveluate real-life experience vs. leetcoder skills?

dnautics 6y ago
one of the companies I interviewed at had a question where they showed me a bug in what looked to be an old version of their UI and I had to debug it as a pair with them piloting. I didn't get the job (probably in part because as an "almost totally backend" it took me a bit of time to decide to look at the web console), but it was literally the best interview I'd been on. It really exercised everything you could possibly want to know about a full stack dev, and was done in 25 minutes.
- _benj 6y ago
  I wish companies like that would be easier to find! From the feel of this thread it seems to me that a company that explicitly states on "Who's Hiring" that they don't do leetcode, but do actual pair programming for evaluating candidates would have an advantage above the rest!
  - dnautics 6y ago
    My PL of choice is Elixir. I had zero interviews with leetcode questions, but there was one where they asked me to verbally describe how a hash table works under the hood, they didn't seem to care too much about the answer so long as it was ballpark and you said "O(1)" or I think I said "fake, amortized O(1)".
decafninja 6y ago
One company (fairly well known) gave me a homework assignment to write the snake game in JavaScript. It was pretty enjoyable, and feedback was that the hiring manager/team loved my coding. Then I got invited to the onsite where I was subjected to multiple stereotypical leetcode rounds. Got rejected.

by _benj 6y ago

dnautics 6y ago

one of the companies I interviewed at had a question where they showed me a bug in what looked to be an old version of their UI and I had to debug it as a pair with them piloting. I didn't get the job (probably in part because as an "almost totally backend" it took me a bit of time to decide to look at the web console), but it was literally the best interview I'd been on. It really exercised everything you could possibly want to know about a full stack dev, and was done in 25 minutes.

_benj 6y ago
I wish companies like that would be easier to find! From the feel of this thread it seems to me that a company that explicitly states on "Who's Hiring" that they don't do leetcode, but do actual pair programming for evaluating candidates would have an advantage above the rest!
- dnautics 6y ago
  My PL of choice is Elixir. I had zero interviews with leetcode questions, but there was one where they asked me to verbally describe how a hash table works under the hood, they didn't seem to care too much about the answer so long as it was ballpark and you said "O(1)" or I think I said "fake, amortized O(1)".

decafninja 6y ago

One company (fairly well known) gave me a homework assignment to write the snake game in JavaScript. It was pretty enjoyable, and feedback was that the hiring manager/team loved my coding. Then I got invited to the onsite where I was subjected to multiple stereotypical leetcode rounds. Got rejected.