Most of these leetcode hard questions are difficult to solve, even more so in less than one hour. Do interviewers usually try to help you, like give you hints during the interview? Does that affect their scoring on how you did?
I’ve done over 100 problems in the last 3 months, in addition to ctci book. Doing epi Book right now. Still feel like I can’t solve a leetcode hard without looking at the solutions. :/
Give it time, you will get there
How helpful is the epi book? I watched a few videos online and started leetcode, can't solve many of the the easy ones as well without looking at the solutions.
I recently interviewed at Waymo. I had 3 coding rounds and almost all of them were Leetcode hard. I came up with sub optimal solution (though not brute force). Got rejected. I was able to find out the best solution for them myself later that day though. Often it’s impossible to solve Leetcode hard in 10 minutes, as that’s the time you literally get to come up with the solution, the rest of the time goes in intro, coding etc. So F those Leetcode hard companies, they are looking for people who rote solutions
I I could solve unseen Leetcode hard question in 10 minuets , then I would have opened my own company. I wouldn’t be interviewing for a 9-5 job 🤣 The process is so dated and F**ed up
Wait, solving Leetcode hard is related to being able to start a company?
Leetcode based interview evaluation is pretty outdated IMHO. As it has zero correlation with real work I appreciate compies like Stripe and Square that focus on real world problems, code quality, design etc.
What do Stripe and Square do for their interviews?
Coding challenge that are more practical. They are not algorithm heavy like Leetcode. They focus more on your code quality, design, readability etc. they don’t stress much on the time complexity of the solution. You type on a real laptop (instead of a f*** whiteboard), you run your program anytime you want for debugging. You are allowed to use your own laptop, own IDE, you are also free to do google search for documentation/stack overflow. I really loved their process, you need zero preparation for that as it’s so real life
The new normal of leet code interview selection process is going to be the downfall of the current big tech co’s.
Exactly bro I feel like it’s okay for new grads, but a shitty way to evaluate experienced candidates. When I take interview at FB I ask questions that are more practical
Interviewing next week. Is that typical among FB interviewers?
Most companies ask medium level, or easier hards. For hards, some hints or nudges in the right direction is usually okay.
If it’s an extreme hard, I don’t interview for that company. 🐼
Two Sigma, Jane Street, Dropbox
These guys ask Leetcode hard?
Leetcode *very hard
Leetcode hards only correlate with "how recently did you take a top-tier CS school's algorithms class" and not much else.
Then why is FB notorious if asking them ?
I ask easy ass questions and the people who only Leetcode and don't think always fail
Who do you interview generally?
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Of course yes, take a look at leetcode weekly contest, some crazy guys there can alway finish all 4 within 1 hour
I mean do interviewers expect you to be able to solve it without hints?
yes, they do. check the lc weekly contest and you are gonna see genius solving all 4 questions in 30min and a large amount of folks in 1 hour counting the wrong answer panelty.