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Leetcode being asked in an interview is a marker of an incompetent organization.
by very_good_man 3y ago
Leetcode being asked in an interview is a marker of an incompetent organization.
- kemiller 3y agoI agree, but it's near-universal. Not sure what that says about our industry.
- jgilias 3y agoThat most are incompetent organizations, I guess.
- bluGill 3y agoThere is research into how an interview should be done to find who will be a good or bad employee. Most companies (not just our industry!) don't appear to have even looked at it. (I'm not sure how useful the research is for real world hiring)
- osigurdson 3y agoLinks?
- bluGill 3y agoI don't know how to search the academic literature to find it. I'm not even sure it is online to link. I just know it is done.
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- hotnfresh 3y agoEspecially when they don’t pay FAANG money. If I were capable of looking good during the only experience in my adult life that feels like having a solo in a middle school strings recital, I’d be applying to those places, not yours.
- nextlevelwizard 3y agoI don't know if this is what you meant, but to me this reads as: "I don't know anything about data structures or algorithms".
- shortrounddev2 3y agoNot him but 1.) DS and Algo knowledge are way overrated in day-to-day job functions. I have yet to have to implement a single DS or Algo from those classes (they are almost always available to the framework, standard library, or language), runtime complexity has literally never once come up in my life, and the most I've ever needed to know about data structures is "which one should I use here?" and 99% of the time its either a vector (arraylist) or a map (dictionary). 2.) Just because you don't have a proclivity for code-golf does not mean you don't know DS and Algos, it just means that you don't waste your free time writing unreadable code for useless puzzles which serve only as interview questions.
- Aurornis 3y ago> runtime complexity has literally never once come up in my life There are definitely different types of programming jobs, but for some contrast: I have never had a job where runtime complexity did not come up as a significant factor somewhat frequently. It really comes down to what you’re doing, but at a certain scale or size of problem you really do need to know about algorithms, data structures, and runtime complexity to avoid having your runtime explode, server costs become untenable, opening the door to extremely long running requests and other problems.
- shortrounddev2 3y agoIn my experience the biggest bottlenecks are in the network. Most optimizations are also very very low hanging fruit because the original code was written by a moron
- Dudester230602 3y ago
- hcks 3y agoGoogle, Meta, Apple, OpenAI, Citadel are incompetent organisations. Wow lads
- codeTired 3y agoWhat if I told you any large organization can be incompetent? Not saying they are, but there becomes a point in a corporations life when it becomes full of people who flock to it due to prestige and pay. The original founders are often out of the picture and their original product is beginning to turn into shit.