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Leaderbords : https://amazon.interviewstreet.com/challenges/dashboard/#leaderboard/default/1 https://amazon.interviewstreet.com/challenges/dashboard/#lea... In

by BenderV 13y ago

Leaderbords : https://amazon.interviewstreet.com/challenges/dashboard/#leaderboard/default/1 https://amazon.interviewstreet.com/challenges/dashboard/#lea... India, India, India, India, India, India, India, Germany, India, India, India... There is, without doubt a great pool of talents available in India, but this kind of result make me suspect that it's maybe just a result of India' schools focus on algorithms. Not on real problem solving, creation, design...

thejosh 13y ago
Or you know, timezone?
morgante 13y ago
Or that the link is for Amazon India. Techniques like this are only really used to sort through hiring pools with high signal:noise.
- CognitiveLens 13y ago
  * low signal:noise
twic 13y ago
This is on the india.amazon.com site. I can't immediately find it on non-Indian sites. It appears this is aimed at recruiting Indian programmers. It is not surprising most of the people on the leaderboard are Indian. No idea how Herr Amtrix got on that leaderboard.
- morgante 13y ago
  > No idea how Herr Amtrix got on that leaderboard. Quite possibly from the HN link?
- BenderV 13y ago
  Indeed, it's for India people... My bad. Though, that's not the first time I see that kind of result on contests (but I wasn't so surprised because of the demographic numbers.)
thepoet 13y ago
This is India specific challenge. Also schools in India do not really focus on algorithms. In almost all competitive programming competitions and places like TopCoder, India is far behind Chinese, Russians etc. (just count the number of TC Red coders in each country and let me tell you India is equal or even more in quantity) This can partially be attributed to the early age at which kids in other countries are exposed to programming but other than that it is just that Indian schools apart from say top 15 provide crappy CS education. And while we are at it, in interviews at top CS product companies of which I know about Amazon and Microsoft, lately I have seen same set of questions repeated again and again and people getting through without much of problem solving skills by just mugging up solutions to common problems from sites like GeeksforGeeks, CareerCup etc. Throw them a real problem or a problem for which they have not seen a solution already and they would give a blank stare. Note that I am not saying you cannot find super talented people at these places. But when I have to take a few interviews apart from my regular work, I would head to same sites for interview questions.
- vonseel 13y ago
  Are algorithmic questions asked in web development interviews (Rails, Django, JavaScript frameworks, etc) or usually only more complicated programming roles?
- RogerL 13y ago
  I do not know anything about India, but I spent some time one day looking at the geographic distribution of various Google queries. India dominated for anything algorithmic related. I know you cannot draw much from that as it is absolute numbers, so in some sense it is a measure of population, but that same dominance did not hold with non algorithmic, but programming based queries.
ismail 13y ago
actually in india there is a cottage industry on training people to ace tech interviews and solve these kind of problems

by BenderV 13y ago

thejosh 13y ago

Or you know, timezone?

morgante 13y ago

Or that the link is for Amazon India. Techniques like this are only really used to sort through hiring pools with high signal:noise.

CognitiveLens 13y ago
* low signal:noise

twic 13y ago

This is on the india.amazon.com site. I can't immediately find it on non-Indian sites. It appears this is aimed at recruiting Indian programmers. It is not surprising most of the people on the leaderboard are Indian. No idea how Herr Amtrix got on that leaderboard.

morgante 13y ago
> No idea how Herr Amtrix got on that leaderboard. Quite possibly from the HN link?
BenderV 13y ago
Indeed, it's for India people... My bad. Though, that's not the first time I see that kind of result on contests (but I wasn't so surprised because of the demographic numbers.)

thepoet 13y ago

This is India specific challenge. Also schools in India do not really focus on algorithms. In almost all competitive programming competitions and places like TopCoder, India is far behind Chinese, Russians etc. (just count the number of TC Red coders in each country and let me tell you India is equal or even more in quantity) This can partially be attributed to the early age at which kids in other countries are exposed to programming but other than that it is just that Indian schools apart from say top 15 provide crappy CS education. And while we are at it, in interviews at top CS product companies of which I know about Amazon and Microsoft, lately I have seen same set of questions repeated again and again and people getting through without much of problem solving skills by just mugging up solutions to common problems from sites like GeeksforGeeks, CareerCup etc. Throw them a real problem or a problem for which they have not seen a solution already and they would give a blank stare. Note that I am not saying you cannot find super talented people at these places. But when I have to take a few interviews apart from my regular work, I would head to same sites for interview questions.

vonseel 13y ago
Are algorithmic questions asked in web development interviews (Rails, Django, JavaScript frameworks, etc) or usually only more complicated programming roles?
RogerL 13y ago
I do not know anything about India, but I spent some time one day looking at the geographic distribution of various Google queries. India dominated for anything algorithmic related. I know you cannot draw much from that as it is absolute numbers, so in some sense it is a measure of population, but that same dominance did not hold with non algorithmic, but programming based queries.

ismail 13y ago

actually in india there is a cottage industry on training people to ace tech interviews and solve these kind of problems