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> Do you really think they'll be cooking up fresh new interview questions or just going on leetcode and picking their fav question so that they can get done wit
by tetromino_ 4y ago
> Do you really think they'll be cooking up fresh new interview questions or just going on leetcode and picking their fav question so that they can get done with the interview and get back to their sprint deadline?
At my FAANG, all publicly available interview questions (published on leetcode, interview prep groups, or anywhere else) are prohibited. So yes, people do come up with original questions, and then get those questions reviewed by their peers.
The benefit of leetcode is to re-familiarize yourself with algorithms that you might not have seen since university days, and to practice staying cool and coding under time pressure. Not with practicing the answer to specific questions you will be asked.
- hither_shores 4y ago> all publicly available interview questions (published on leetcode, interview prep groups, or anywhere else) are prohibited. And how thoroughly is that prohibition enforced? Do you scrape libgen, for instance? Coursework on university websites? Mathoverflow? I'm guessing not. Personally, I have asked people old "folklore" questions in interviews, and probably will again. They're not on leetcode, but anyone who paid attention in a sufficiently good CS program has seen them before - and honestly, I don't really care to filter those people out, given the overall state of the candidate pool.
- tetromino_ 4y ago> And how thoroughly is that prohibition enforced? Do you scrape libgen, for instance? Coursework on university websites? Mathoverflow? No idea, I'm not involved with that effort. I did see a question I wanted to ask get banned because it was leaked in a private interview prep group. And I saw questions get banned for being, at their core, too similar to leetcode ones (despite not having the same problem statement).