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> In Australia I have fortunately not encountered a company that uses these puzzles in interviews. The big ones are definitely doing it. FAANG of course, but a
by erklik 5y ago
> In Australia I have fortunately not encountered a company that uses these puzzles in interviews.
The big ones are definitely doing it. FAANG of course, but also Atlassian, Optiver, Xero, Akuna etc. I am not sure, but maybe it's more common in the less experience levels? I am not experienced enough to know hiring after 5YOE etc.
- nsonha 5y agobig banks use them for filtering too, even contracting. And there are also some small companies that use them for some reason, probably the tech lead learned that from a big firm they worked in.
- erklik 5y agoYeah. I think there's a lot of startups who are sort of emulating the FAANGs because it is "norm". I personally think that's good because I'd rather have everyone have a similar process than have very different processes across companies. Makes it much easier to interview and prepare for one.
- nsonha 5y agoI'd rather they interview real skills used on the job, and since it's already what I do day to day, I don't need to prepare. With small companies leetcode is a waste of time because they don't have time to do rounds and rounds of interview like big tech, so using leetcode for 1 round mean they only have another 1 or even no round left for the real stuff, system design and the like. An example of good tech interview at a company (not in Australia) I interviewed recently, is a take home test that encompasses doing 1 or more PRs to fix issues, code reviewing someone else's PR, and document a simple security audit.