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I think you’re overestimating most people’s ability to withstand the stress that quiz show style Leetcode interviews can put on people. I’ve literally blanked o
by cassonmars 5y ago
I think you’re overestimating most people’s ability to withstand the stress that quiz show style Leetcode interviews can put on people. I’ve literally blanked on an interview before when I was tasked with writing a simple parser and I’ve written entire compilers. The interview processes are broken in most companies. Pair programming sessions with debugging and incremental graduation of the problem scope are way better at assessing programming competency, because you also get a sense for how well the candidate can collaborate and communicate.
- eschneider 5y agoYeah, folks can definitely freeze up and I'm pretty sympathetic to that in interviews. I'll often spot folks most or all of the algorithm if it looks like they locked up. "Hey, you could dry implementing it like this..." and see where they go from there. I mean, we really want to see people succeed with these things.
- colinmhayes 5y agoStressful situations happen at work. If you're not able to handle it in the interview you might not be able to during crunch time.