Why do you do it? And then offer poor TC. It was a good practice interview for me but why do you do it knowing that candidate will probably not take the offer.
Startups often have a weird culture of elitism and exclusivity. All while being overworked and underpaid and most employees donāt even last two years. Iāll never go back to a startup.
Lol Iām still in aw over the stupidity of this comment. Possibly become millionaires or billionaires eh?
Yeah your comment is definitely stupid. Probably the most stupid comment I read on here today. People join startups for plenty of reasons including hitting the IPO jackpot or potentially get acquired one day. To me, you should join a startup if you are aligned with their mission and are ready to work hard. Hope I am mistaken, but this post makes you sound lazy and entitled. Definitely not startup material.
I had a startup ask me to do a 6 hour hacker rank assessment followed by interviews with a minimum of 7 people when they had a 20 member team. I decided I would rather take 2 lc style and 3 design and 1 behavior at some other company. The issue with LC style interviews is the expectation. If your interviewer is smart, he can find enough signals to know if you are good or not. If the expectations are adjusted LC style interviews are fine
Sure, I am fine with LC style. But when you are a startup (that too some no name), do you want to do LC style considering you will be competing for talent from Google and FB. Asking ppl to do take home wonāt work either, most ppl except new grads will probably refuse it.
If they give you one LC style question and ask you to go with brute force and then consider ways to improve and ask you questions about your choices and code you wrote, it should be fine. The thought process, code clarity, corner case handling, data structure or algorithm choice can all be gauged in that setting. The problem with LC process is the attempt at standardization where you expect everyone to solve 2 mediums or hard perfectly. This standard can only be applied at companies whose intake volume is high and they cannot rely on subjective judgment and need hard objective criteria for uniformity of standard. A startup wanting to do that is going to miss out on a lot of talent and end up wasting precious time of their interviewers
Happened to me. Gave them a middle finger in my mind and walked out. Imagine the nerve.
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I was asked two LC hards in one round to finish within 40 minutes at nivida by a new grad who was probably there for just about a year. Straight outta LC! Iād never wouldāve joined that place, it was just a filler to serve as practice. Fuck these shitholes! Iām never applying to such companies again! Such startups and companies are dumb for a reason.
Are you saying Nvidia is dumb?
You calling all Faang level companies dumb. Did ericsson hit you from behind?
Itās pretty stupid as startups donāt have resources to train lc monkeys like big companies do. Iām an advisor to a startup and I never ask lc questions when interviewing for them, even though Iām pretty good at it. Startups should be hiring engineers who can code stuff like react or ruby on day one. People who lc a lot tend to jump ships frequently and require higher pay.
Exactly. Whatās the point if that wasnāt the case. Itās a clear win-win. These other companies probably complain they arenāt finding candidates all the time.
Require high pay is probably not the right word - crave is probably a better one.
I have taken interviews as a consultant last year for a startup and I have tried to avoid asking lc questions. I did include few lc easy questions, along with a mix of vanilla JS test (it was for frontend position). Things worked out pretty well for them.
Take call and do the mock interview practice. Mostly they ask hard question or 2 question in 30 min. Good for practice.
Exactly. Good for practice as a candidate but is it helping the startup finding a candidate? I am trying to understand why they are doing this.
No. They have hard time in pulling the project and end up messy code and design.
Because a good chunk of shitty startups think theyāre google when theyāre not. My last job 70% of people are junior AF and have had that place as their first job, somehow they think their bar is really high and how only 1ā2 out of 100 resumes submitted get hired, and then they complain itās hard to find qualified candidates
They dont understand difference. if someone can solve hard and medium question they will work for bigger company rather than shitty startup .
Exactly
Had a director at startup who insisted we switch to leetcode style interviews and I told him that was a horrible idea. All other devs wanted it too. No clue why. Maybe to feel suprerior? Funny thing was none of them could pass their own interview.
Ok so u want to get 500k tc without putting any efforts and just by doing talks?
Leetcode is not ideal but treat it as filtering mechanism