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> grinded the fuck out of leetcode What is leetcode?

by imdsm 4y ago

zoover2020 4y ago
If not bait: a website to test competitive programming skills by algorithmic and data structure design questions. The difficulty levels vary and FAANG is well-known to ask such questions (in the harder difficulty spectrum) intech interviews
- imdsm 4y ago
  Ah, thanks. Wasn't bait, I'm just a bit too old in the tooth to be involved in modern-day interview culture. (The interviews I conduct are far more relaxed, personal, and practical.)
harveywi 4y ago
It's a scheme that (1) provides a busywork/proof-of-work barrier to entry to FAANG companies, and (2) fools engineers into believing that they are Robert Tarjan when in fact they can't wipe their own asses.
wildrhythms 4y ago
Canned programming interview questions that teach aspiring young people to memorize and recite a function line-for-line rather than actually be able to discuss implementations with the interviewer like a human being. (I blame lazy, clueless hiring managers and hiring practices for enabling this)
- brandall10 4y ago
  They are canned in a way, but they did first originate from these companies. Leetcode is essentially a compendium of all that. But you'll be nicked hard if you don't communicate a ton. It's actually bad form to not verbally discuss the approach, big O space/time tradeoffs, testing approach, etc, before starting to code. For a medium type problem that could be a full 5-10 minutes of talking before doing 10-20 minutes of coding. Also the general advice is to not memorize the answers. There's literally thousands of them. It's to do many in different classes of problems to get a feel for the algorithms and to see the patterns on when to apply what, and to esp. dig deep into alternate solutions provided in the discussion sections because it's not uncommon for an interview to switch it up and ask to optimize space instead of time. It's really just becoming a mid-level competitive programmer, which takes some grit, but is somewhat removed from being a great engineer.

> grinded the fuck out of leetcode What is leetcode?

by imdsm 4y ago

> grinded the fuck out of leetcode What is leetcode?

zoover2020 4y ago

If not bait: a website to test competitive programming skills by algorithmic and data structure design questions. The difficulty levels vary and FAANG is well-known to ask such questions (in the harder difficulty spectrum) intech interviews

imdsm 4y ago
Ah, thanks. Wasn't bait, I'm just a bit too old in the tooth to be involved in modern-day interview culture. (The interviews I conduct are far more relaxed, personal, and practical.)

harveywi 4y ago

It's a scheme that (1) provides a busywork/proof-of-work barrier to entry to FAANG companies, and (2) fools engineers into believing that they are Robert Tarjan when in fact they can't wipe their own asses.

wildrhythms 4y ago

Canned programming interview questions that teach aspiring young people to memorize and recite a function line-for-line rather than actually be able to discuss implementations with the interviewer like a human being. (I blame lazy, clueless hiring managers and hiring practices for enabling this)

brandall10 4y ago
They are canned in a way, but they did first originate from these companies. Leetcode is essentially a compendium of all that. But you'll be nicked hard if you don't communicate a ton. It's actually bad form to not verbally discuss the approach, big O space/time tradeoffs, testing approach, etc, before starting to code. For a medium type problem that could be a full 5-10 minutes of talking before doing 10-20 minutes of coding. Also the general advice is to not memorize the answers. There's literally thousands of them. It's to do many in different classes of problems to get a feel for the algorithms and to see the patterns on when to apply what, and to esp. dig deep into alternate solutions provided in the discussion sections because it's not uncommon for an interview to switch it up and ask to optimize space instead of time. It's really just becoming a mid-level competitive programmer, which takes some grit, but is somewhat removed from being a great engineer.