... who think exactly the same? How does this even fit with their new diversity meme about different experiences and lifestyles? Is diversity only blue hair and homosexuals(obviously nothing against those, just so you know)? This feels more and more like when I graduated and people were studying for Investment Banker jobs where they literally want you to be a mindless drone in their office who read reports. (Note: This is not a Leetcode complaint, I would ask the same if they required everyone to build a house or recite the Bible)
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Leetcode sucks🕳.
maybe, read my note
Bc most don’t 🤷♂️. Tech skills are only half the amazon interview. You can be the best leetcoder in the world, but if you don’t perform well against our leadership principles, you won’t get an offer.
And those leadership principles are worse than leetcode 🤷🏻♂️
I think LP is a great filter as well
Yeah also if you are poor on system design; they will never call you back.
My opinion is that these companies have a lot of budget for interviewing and hiring processes. Therefore, they can afford a huge number of candidates without narrowing the funnel too much at early stages. They are choosing LC because it doesn't care about education, background and all that stuff. OKAY, say they decide to switch the hiring strategy: lower down LC barriers, but increase education, extracurriculars and experience barriers - not too many people can now get through, but only those with highest ratings. Result: less talent, lower diversity, thus less creativity and overall technical acumen. Plus, missed out like 95% of the worldwide talent that doesn't have budget to go to prestigious universities. Tech companies adapt lower background barriers with high LC barriers to try a lot of candidates, fail fast and cheap, and destroy traditional way of doing things - isn't it all about Silicon Valley?
Good points I haven’t considered tbh. But I think mass production applies here too. You need fill a lot of vacancies at once. Evaluating project-based can be even more tome consuming (for thousands of people).
I can't agree that LC interviews are bad, but the most annoying thing that they treat a candidate with 5 yoe and new grad the same if they are good in LC. For example, how much time new grad needs to learn all the stuff, like frameworks, databases, distributed stuff, etc. I understand that if the person is talanted in the end they will learn that. But what would be the cost? One year? Two?
Does it though? I know a couple of idiots from Bloomberg who I would have fired who are now vesting at Google. I get interviewed by morons at top companies all the time. Such big morons that they don’t even know all optimal solutions to the problem they are asking and try to steer you towards their solution. Can give you ample examples.
@Amazon: You have research that shows it works, right?
A lot of companies are moving toward more system design rounds than LC rounds. I’d say half of the companies I interviewed do it like 1 coding + 2 design + 1 Exp/BQ. Still need to pass phone screen though.
Which companies? All the companies I interviewed had at least 3 coding interviews. I am interviewing for senior position (and higher).
What’s blue hair a metaphor for?
Those Diversity advocates usually look like that
Because LC is the best predictor of success as a SWE.
Lol 😂
Okay Patrick Star