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It was mostly a joke, I'm a DS so I get arbitrary take homes rather than leetcode. The more general point is that the algorithmic approaches from leetcode prob
by disgruntledphd2 5y ago
It was mostly a joke, I'm a DS so I get arbitrary take homes rather than leetcode.
The more general point is that the algorithmic approaches from leetcode problems have not a lot of relation to what most programmers do all day, and as such, are less useful as a work-sample test.
Doing a take-home where you fix some bugs would probably work better (i.e. more correlated with outcomes) than leetcode interviews.
- emodendroket 5y agoWell I think this is an important point, because the tests, IME, are asking you to apply the concepts to solve a toy problem, not to actually implement stuff like sorting algorithms from memory. The latter is indeed unrealistic, but the former is something my job actually does entail.