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Plenty of candidates can't figure how to use a for-loop to iterate over input or even how to handle nested data (Trees). If you're biggest worry about leetcode
by lesuorac 2y ago
Plenty of candidates can't figure how to use a for-loop to iterate over input or even how to handle nested data (Trees).
If you're biggest worry about leetcode is does this language need a semi-colon at the end then I doubt you have trouble interviewing.
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Do you do much interviewing as an interviewer?
- vundercind 2y agoI have in past roles. We never leetcoded anyone where I’ve been an interviewer. One place where I guided it my approach was to attempt to learn something from the candidate—this not-infrequently led to my being the only person (they claimed) to have ever e.g. engaged them in a conversation about a paper they authored and listed on their résumé. Which, wtf, how do you not get curious enough to skim that before the interview and ask a couple non-stupid questions about it? I don’t exactly have a dataset (who does? A few Bigcos but most interviewers are working with tea-leaves and guesses) but I really liked the “try to learn something” approach and would use it again. It helps that I don’t know much so it’s pretty easy for me to find something I don’t know that the candidate can teach me about, I suppose—maybe this doesn’t work so well for people who know a lot and also aren’t good at faking not-knowing things.