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The whole leetcode thing is atrocious. People practicing months to leetcode instead of working on actual projects. People who do actual work will fail the inter
by mewpmewp2 5y ago
The whole leetcode thing is atrocious. People practicing months to leetcode instead of working on actual projects. People who do actual work will fail the interviews.
- bennyelv 5y agoWhat about the people who don't do actual work, but have a decent CV and a good story about how they do? Have you ever experienced what it's like to try and hire decent developers or are you only offering the candidates' point of view? In my experience more than 50% of the applicants who make through to an interview are the kind I describe in that first sentence.
- mewpmewp2 5y agoYes, I am interviewing, but I'm offering a real world problem to solve for candidates, not an exercise picked from Leetcode. I actually enjoy Leetcoding type problems, so I'd love to grind those, so I as a candidate don't have problems with those - although still I'd rather be building stuff. The real world problem most of the time resembles understanding instructions, navigating in an existing codebase, implementing some feature. This gives really good insight into how much they've built, how much they know or how much potential they have - for example if they are unfamiliar with some things, they are always allowed to Google and if they do it efficiently, that's very telling about their potential. With Leetcode you won't know whether the person has actual skill or experience to build something or they just practiced Leetcoding for 6 months straight.
- the_only_law 5y agoYeah I can’t tell whether I should put my limited energy leetcoding or working on contrived side projects in tech that’s not even a good fit just so I can put it on my resume to get past the screen.