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I've done a lot of whiteboarding interviews in my life and it's never been "implement a quadtree." It's always, at its core, a small coding probably that could
by emodendroket 2y ago
I've done a lot of whiteboarding interviews in my life and it's never been "implement a quadtree." It's always, at its core, a small coding probably that could plausibly be part of a real-world problem, and therefore it is directly relevant to the job.
- angoragoats 2y agoI've also never been asked a question like this, but it's because I specifically avoid the companies that are known to ask them. Sounds like you have as well (knowingly or not). But the OP is about LeetCode-style interviews, so that's what I was discussing.
- emodendroket 2y agoNo, I've been applying to companies all-in on the "leetcode" style of testing and I think you are misconstruing it.
- angoragoats 2y agoAre you claiming that no company asks irrelevant leetcode-style questions as part of its interview process? If so, that’ll require some more evidence than “well, I haven’t been asked any such questions.”
- emodendroket 2y agoI'm rejecting your characterization of "leetcode-style" questions as 1) irrelevant 2) primarily about simply implementing some obscure data structure (as opposed to correctly using data structures).
- angoragoats 2y agoI'm sorry if I wasn't clear; I didn't mean to say that all LC questions are irrelevant. I was just asking if you're claiming that no company uses LC questions which are irrelevant. Because if you are, that seems like a pretty difficult claim to prove given all the stories out there on every company review/discussion site like Blind or Glassdoor. And my "implement a quadtree" example was hyperbole; again I'm sorry if you didn't recognize it as such. I do suspect we have wildly different definitons of what questions qualify as "relevant to the position," though, so I'm not sure how far we're going to get in this discussion.
- emodendroket 2y agoBecause the interviewers themselves typically have wide latitude to select the actual question, no, I don't think such a thing can be claimed. But I'd say the majority of questions asked are reasonable ones that can plausibly be solved in the timeframe and the majority of interviewers I've observed from that side of the table have not expected perfection or wanted their candidates to fail.
- angoragoats 2y agoI don't think I (nor most others commenting here) were claiming that the questions couldn't be solved in the timeframe, that interviewers expected perfection, or that they wanted candidates to fail. So I'm not really sure why you brought that up.