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Leetcode grinding is suggested as necessary by everyone, including recruiters (in-house or 3rd party), hiring managers, prospective colleagues. You can see comm
by zerr 5y ago
Leetcode grinding is suggested as necessary by everyone, including recruiters (in-house or 3rd party), hiring managers, prospective colleagues. You can see comments from devs at FANGs even in this thread.
- marssaxman 5y agoI understand that this is a common belief, but I don't agree that it is strictly true; it is contrary to my own experience, both as an applicant and as an interviewer.
- zerr 5y agoNote that we are talking about a particular interview process which uses CP (Competitive Programming). This is common at FAG (Lets exclude Netflix since as I've heard they don't do it) and at companies that copycat the process. Of course, there are many other places that don't do it.
- marssaxman 5y agoWe are? What is "competitive programming", and where did it come into this thread? All I see upstream from your comment is a discussion of Google interviews and large tech company interviews generally. I don't recall anything particularly "competitive" when I interviewed at Google (or Facebook, or Microsoft, or...); they just had me solve problems, as usual.
- zerr 5y agoThat's the point, CP != CS (Computer Science). It is a separate discipline/subject with its own trivia knowledge & tricks. CP uses Computer Science the same way as e.g. Physics or Biology use Math. And CP problems are used in those interviews. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_programming#Benefits_and_criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_programming#Benefi...
- marssaxman 5y agoI ask again: what makes you so certain? This does not correspond to my experience with tech interviews.
- zerr 5y agoAgain, a common knowledge, including the above mentioned Wikipedia article. Good for you if that was not your experience :)