3 ms·
It's worth saying I've been subjected to LeetCode interviews for SRE Systems Engineering positions. Though I write application code it doesn't even begin to ref
by kodah 3y ago
It's worth saying I've been subjected to LeetCode interviews for SRE Systems Engineering positions. Though I write application code it doesn't even begin to reflect the problem domain I work in. It's simply a test that you must pass that someone arbitrarily believes does a good job of filtering. From my perspective as a senior engineer, and knowing that many of the people who can pass these tests suck when it comes to practical skills, the only thing it filters for is how bad you want the role.
- jdenning 3y ago+1 to this - I’ve had countless interviews for SRE positions that were pure leetcode. If I were applying for SRE roles today, I would take it as a signal and just stop the interview and leave. Leetcode interviews are a big part of the reason why I left my career in tech. I’ve built infrastructures that handled 30,000 requests per second at dozens of datacenters - never once had to implement my own graph search.