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There's an interesting tweet here from someone who used to work at DeepSeek, which describes their hiring process and culture. No mention of LeetCoding for sure
by HarHarVeryFunny 2y ago
There's an interesting tweet here from someone who used to work at DeepSeek, which describes their hiring process and culture. No mention of LeetCoding for sure!
https://x.com/wzihanw/status/1872826641518395587 https://x.com/wzihanw/status/1872826641518395587
- whimsicalism 2y agothey almost certainly ask coding/technical questions. the people doing this work are far beyond being gatekept by leetcode leetcode is like HN’s “DEI” - something they want to blame everything on
- slt2021 2y agothey recruit from top Computer Science programs, the top of the class MS and PhD students
- dmix 2y agowhat is leetcode
- whimsicalism 2y agoa style of coding challenges asked in interviews for software engineers, generally focused on algorithmic thinking
- angoragoats 2y agoIt’s also known for being not reflective of the actual work that most companies do, especially the companies that use it.
- amarcheschi 2y agoI've recently ended an internship for my bachelor at the Italian research Council where I had to deal with federated learning, and it was hard as well for my researchers supervisors. However, I sort of did a good job. I'm fairly sure I wouldn't be able to solve many leetcode exercises, since it's something that I've never had to deal with aside from university tasks... And I made a few side projects for myself as well
- strictnein 2y agoleetcode.com - If you interview at Meta, these are the questions they'll ask you
- tempaccount420 2y agoDid you read the tweet? It doesn't sound that way to me. They hire specialized talent (note especially the "Know-It-All" part)
- lvl155 2y agoDeepseek team is mostly quants from my understanding which explains why they were able to pull this off. Some of the best coders I’ve met have been quants.