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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
by 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 agoI 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 agoMy 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)".