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Based on your description, it sounds like a bad interview question. When otherwise capable candidates can't answer your trivia, maybe it isn't a useful signal?
by Etheryte 1y ago
Based on your description, it sounds like a bad interview question. When otherwise capable candidates can't answer your trivia, maybe it isn't a useful signal? More than anything, it just sounds like you're selecting for people who practiced leetcode vs those who didn't.
- zozbot234 1y agoIt's not whether you can solve it right away, it's how you approach the problem solving process to reach a viable solution. If "try to prove that this code is actually correct" is part of that process, that's the kind of "trivia" that can really be widely applicable even in a working environment, in a way that random leetcode algos often aren't. I vote for making "how would you think about proving this correct?" a question in all algo-focused interviews.
- hiAndrewQuinn 1y agoTo be precise, Zoz said >about 2/3rds of highly credentialed applicants Credentialed ≠ capable.