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Leetcode and Hackerrank I think, if they're used anywhere, are very much a Silicon Valley kind of thing. I've certainly never been asked to go near them when in
by jon-wood 4y ago
Leetcode and Hackerrank I think, if they're used anywhere, are very much a Silicon Valley kind of thing. I've certainly never been asked to go near them when interviewing for startup jobs in the UK, and never used them when hiring myself.
They feel very much like the sort of thing you use in an environment where you've got way more qualified candidates than you have open positions, so you're optimising for screening people out. Certainly not a place I've ever been in over here, where the norm is to be desperately looking for even one qualified candidate.
- mianos 4y agoI think it may be a policy for some larger firms, even if there is little available talent in the local market. Here in Sydney there are next to no C++ experienced developers (I am hiring), yet some firms insist agencies make candidates do leetcode tests even before someone actually from the firm will even talk to them.
- ravenstine 4y agoIf they're gonna make you do Leetcode anyway, I actually would want to do it as early as possible. An initial phone screening would be good, but as much as I don't like Leetcode, it's less exhausting than multiple rounds of interviews before getting a challenge that you mess up on. Fail fast, fail early, as they say.
- ibejoeb 4y agoIt should be prominently listed in the req as a hard requirement: "Must complete leetcode, no exceptions." Then we all know what's what. It's up to management to make decisions about how hard it wants to make recruiting for itself.