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>It's not like the company cares about your actual solution Every time I have ever been tested in any kind of interview, they 100 percent care more about the s
by autotune 4y ago
>It's not like the company cares about your actual solution
Every time I have ever been tested in any kind of interview, they 100 percent care more about the solution than how to get there. Some of the honest ones have admitted it, some of the others have pretended they don't to try and make you feel better about not reaching it in time. I have never passed an interview with a live coding round, especially one involving leetcode, where they were fine with me not having reached a solution in the 10, 35, or 45 minute time window given.
- jstx1 4y agoI think I phrased it in a confusing way. They care about your solution in the sense that they want to know if/how you'll solve the problem. They don't care in the sense that they aren't trying to learn the answer by interviewing you. It's not like they have a critical red-black tree problem and they called you in to fix things for them. They know the solution so the existence of an additional out-of-interview way to get to the solution like a language model doesn't change anything about the usefulness of the interview.