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My last interview cycle I interviewed with some big names (Stripe, Square, Shopify, etc.) and was pleased that none of them asked any LeetCode style questions.

My last interview cycle I interviewed with some big names (Stripe, Square, Shopify, etc.) and was pleased that none of them asked any LeetCode style questions. All pretty practical programming stuff. Stripe had an interview where they had forked the Jackson Java library, introduced a bug, and then asked me to find and fix it. Pretty unique style, but much more applicable to the actual job of programming.

senderista 2y ago
In my most recent interviews with Apple and Amazon there were no LeetCode questions after the phone screen. Quite a change from previous experience.
- supriyo-biswas 2y ago
  What are they asking these days and what positions was this for (i.e. a senior role?)
  - senderista 2y ago
    For the Apple interviews it was all systems programming stuff, e.g. "implement mmove", "read integers off the wire preserving endianness", etc. Amazon was much more focused on behavioral stuff (i.e. their leadership principles) and system design. This was for Amazon L6 and Apple equivalent, nothing very senior.
- dogbait 2y ago
  Really? In my Amazon interview last month for a SWE position they asked a LeetCode style question after the initial phone screen about writing a social network data structure (a directed graph) and then asked me to write a method to traverse it to n-depth.
  - senderista 2y ago
    I did have an internal referral from an SPE so it's possible my experience wasn't typical.
goosejuice 2y ago
That's a clever interview question, but wouldn't that suffer from diffing origin/main? Or was this a in person / on screen interview with no git history?
- surbas 2y ago
  I would say that I would hire that person if that was the solution. That said maybe repo wasn’t included in interview. (Would be even better if person figure out how to diff against a new clone)
  - goosejuice 2y ago
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- carterdmorgan 2y ago
  It was an on-screen virtual interview, so while I believe they had scrubbed the Git history, you weren't allowed to look it up.
  - goosejuice 2y ago
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HumblyTossed 2y ago
> Stripe had an interview where they had forked the Jackson Java library, introduced a bug, and then asked me to find and fix it. I think I would actually enjoy an interview like that.
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senderista 2y ago

In my most recent interviews with Apple and Amazon there were no LeetCode questions after the phone screen. Quite a change from previous experience.

supriyo-biswas 2y ago
What are they asking these days and what positions was this for (i.e. a senior role?)
- senderista 2y ago
  For the Apple interviews it was all systems programming stuff, e.g. "implement mmove", "read integers off the wire preserving endianness", etc. Amazon was much more focused on behavioral stuff (i.e. their leadership principles) and system design. This was for Amazon L6 and Apple equivalent, nothing very senior.
dogbait 2y ago
Really? In my Amazon interview last month for a SWE position they asked a LeetCode style question after the initial phone screen about writing a social network data structure (a directed graph) and then asked me to write a method to traverse it to n-depth.
- senderista 2y ago
  I did have an internal referral from an SPE so it's possible my experience wasn't typical.

goosejuice 2y ago

That's a clever interview question, but wouldn't that suffer from diffing origin/main? Or was this a in person / on screen interview with no git history?

surbas 2y ago
I would say that I would hire that person if that was the solution. That said maybe repo wasn’t included in interview. (Would be even better if person figure out how to diff against a new clone)
- goosejuice 2y ago
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carterdmorgan 2y ago
It was an on-screen virtual interview, so while I believe they had scrubbed the Git history, you weren't allowed to look it up.
- goosejuice 2y ago
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HumblyTossed 2y ago

> Stripe had an interview where they had forked the Jackson Java library, introduced a bug, and then asked me to find and fix it. I think I would actually enjoy an interview like that.

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