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I belive this line of thinking mistakes the result with the process, similar to assuming that the reason companies ask people to reverse a linked list is becaus

I belive this line of thinking mistakes the result with the process, similar to assuming that the reason companies ask people to reverse a linked list is because there's an unmet market demand for list-reversal algorithms. An interview has to be hard enough to filter those that are unqualified but also easy enough that the right person can pass with some minor preparation. If an interviewer asked me for the equivalent of production-ready code to add support for custom hardware in the Linux kernel I'd either reply with my freelance hourly rate or I'd end the interview.

johnnyanmac 2y ago
>An interview has to be hard enough to filter those that are unqualified but also easy enough that the right person can pass with some minor preparation. Yeah, ideally. Meanwhile the market evolved to asking Leetcode hards on the spot. As usual, companies take a good concept and milk it to the point where you need to cheat or make studying leetcode your full time job to ace it. I'm not to sympathetic. (PS yes, I've been asked to do what was essentially spec work a few times. Woudl have been smarter to reply with an invoice, but I was too tired and just said no).