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That's not true. Cracking the coding interview first came out in 2011 for example. I interviewed prior to 2012 and was asked to do leetcode style questions. So
by didibus 3y ago
That's not true. Cracking the coding interview first came out in 2011 for example. I interviewed prior to 2012 and was asked to do leetcode style questions.
So at least in big tech, it's been this way since prior to 2012.
- seanmcdirmid 3y ago“Cracking the coding interview” was first published in 2008. One guesses that those techniques arose between 1999 (when google started) and then, but I’m sure it was in place in 2005.
- didibus 3y agoEven earlier than I thought. It be interesting to know when the practice started, by what company and all the history behind it. But it does seem like it's been around a long time at this point.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoAs described in that book, definitely Google. I wouldn’t be surprised if the canonical coding interview as we know it today started at Google, but there is also the infamous technique used by Joel Spolesky, FitBizz or something like that.
- hnfong 3y agoI interviewed for Google in 2007. Got asked a bunch of typical coding questions, which some people might label "leetcode style", but they were questions you'd see in 1st/2nd year CS homework assignments. But then, one interviewer asked about a graph theory problem which the first step was to first find all the strongly connected components and group them to one, and then required a couple more non-obvious proofs of specific properties of the graph to get to the solution. Definitely significantly harder than the typical "leetcode hard" questions.
- victor_bg 3y agoThe Leetcode style interviews were already a thing in 90s. Cracking the Coding Interview book was published in 2000, right after the dot-com bubble, and it drew on the interview process at different companies in 90s. The book is mostly about preparation for Leetcode style questions.