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I got a new job about ~5 months ago and this was not my experience at all. It was leetcoding questions for days. If you didn't ace it, you'd get ghosted quickl

I got a new job about ~5 months ago and this was not my experience at all. It was leetcoding questions for days. If you didn't ace it, you'd get ghosted quickly. One place, I did 3 rounds of interviews, an all day take home assignment. I still got ghosted! So I call BS on this quote as well.

vbtemp 5y ago
Was this a FAANG or FAANG-like company where it's likely you'd have TC of $350K plus, or a sub-FAANG company where your TC would likely be in the $100-200K range?
- kilroy123 5y ago
  Lol not at all. It was regular run of the mill startups and small companies. TC like ~$150k-180.
  - vbtemp 5y ago
    It's interesting to me. When the carrot is TC of $350K+++, sure, anyone is willing to jump through that grinder. But for ordinary run-of-the-mill companies, there are so many that _don't_ have a hazing-like hiring process, I don't know how the ones that do make it.
    - hogFeast 5y ago
      They don't. That is what the article is about.
    - seattle_spring 5y ago
      > When the carrot is TC of $350K+++, sure, anyone is willing to jump through that grinder Maybe the first time, but I'm well above that mark now and I'd sooner retire early or switch industries over studying leetcode again.
ipsocannibal 5y ago
Same here, applied to a medium sized company and got the standard hackerrank garbage test totally unrelated to the position right off the bat. At least now I know who I don't want to work for.
nicoburns 5y ago
My experience is that this is wildly inconsistent between companies. I've worked for crappy companies for low pay that had ridiculous long multi-week interview processes, and good companies for much better pay where the interview was a single 30 minute phone call where they offered me the job.
Salgat 5y ago
I fucking hate leetcode. It takes me about a month or two of practicing to get caught up and proficient with leetcode, but there's 2 issues with that. The first is that that is a lot of personal time and effort to invest to prepare for interviews. And second, my professional skill does not increase at all from practicing leetcode. Leetcode beyond the concepts of easy/medium questions is programming trivia and reflects rote memorization more than anything else. And worst of all, leetcode distracts from far more valuable skills like design patterns and how to properly architect and design software. In the end, the only companies that should be doing leetcode beyond the easier level questions are companies with an insane number of applicants where they can afford to turn away a lot of good talent.
bryan_w 5y ago
I hate the leetcode stuf, especially for SRE positions. I much rather focus on the systems side of things that I will encounter on a day to day basis

vbtemp 5y ago

Was this a FAANG or FAANG-like company where it's likely you'd have TC of $350K plus, or a sub-FAANG company where your TC would likely be in the $100-200K range?

kilroy123 5y ago
Lol not at all. It was regular run of the mill startups and small companies. TC like ~$150k-180.
- vbtemp 5y ago
  It's interesting to me. When the carrot is TC of $350K+++, sure, anyone is willing to jump through that grinder. But for ordinary run-of-the-mill companies, there are so many that _don't_ have a hazing-like hiring process, I don't know how the ones that do make it.
  - hogFeast 5y ago
    They don't. That is what the article is about.
  - seattle_spring 5y ago
    > When the carrot is TC of $350K+++, sure, anyone is willing to jump through that grinder Maybe the first time, but I'm well above that mark now and I'd sooner retire early or switch industries over studying leetcode again.

ipsocannibal 5y ago

Same here, applied to a medium sized company and got the standard hackerrank garbage test totally unrelated to the position right off the bat. At least now I know who I don't want to work for.

nicoburns 5y ago

My experience is that this is wildly inconsistent between companies. I've worked for crappy companies for low pay that had ridiculous long multi-week interview processes, and good companies for much better pay where the interview was a single 30 minute phone call where they offered me the job.

Salgat 5y ago

I fucking hate leetcode. It takes me about a month or two of practicing to get caught up and proficient with leetcode, but there's 2 issues with that. The first is that that is a lot of personal time and effort to invest to prepare for interviews. And second, my professional skill does not increase at all from practicing leetcode. Leetcode beyond the concepts of easy/medium questions is programming trivia and reflects rote memorization more than anything else. And worst of all, leetcode distracts from far more valuable skills like design patterns and how to properly architect and design software. In the end, the only companies that should be doing leetcode beyond the easier level questions are companies with an insane number of applicants where they can afford to turn away a lot of good talent.

bryan_w 5y ago

I hate the leetcode stuf, especially for SRE positions. I much rather focus on the systems side of things that I will encounter on a day to day basis