I wonder during the 5 round on-sites, can all 5 interviewers solve all 5 questions that were given to the candidates? Assuming they haven't seen the question before. I find some of these questions given unforgiving, that you have to have seen them before you can even attempt it. And I sometimes wonder if the interviewers themselves would even be able to solve them. It's like that one story where the HC at Google declined 5 candidates and found out those candidates were their results a few years ago.
Yes they do have answer in mind. But if you give a super brilliant solution they might don't understand ur solution.
Can you tie your shoe laces?
Nope. I usually can't solve a shit. I hate fucking puzzles and I felt guilty asking them. Now I'm asking only design questions and feel better because there is way more room for candidate to shine there.
U r a star dbx. U can shine in any room.
Keep shining your bright light through the darkest of interviews tunnels. Ps I am looking for a Dropbox referral.
This is the reason I believe interviewing is a game where luck is the most important factor...
Most people would fail interviews for their own jobs without preparation. At this point your only recourse is prepare.
Yes they can
Imagine the hours wasted on leetcoding that could have been spent learning useful things that would benefit companies such as Kubernetes.
Sort of. When you do you a lot of interviews you notice some interviewers that get completely lost if your answer isnt exactly like “their way”. Personally, as an interviewer, I like to ask an “easy” problem and then iterate on it to see how someone handles changing features, refactoring, design, and planning. Solving complex algorithms isn’t always good test of competency for most day to day programming jobs, imo.
I ask a DP hard problem that I can’t even solve, and no one ever solved it after 100+ interviews. I am more interested in the thought process.
You’re missing out on more signals you could be getting from other questions though. With dp either they get it or they don’t.
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Generally yes, that’s how they got the job to begin with