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Even 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 be
by didibus 3y ago
Even 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.