How many here think leetcode style interviewing and hiring is here to stay?
Oct 26, 2018
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4-5 years from now - do you still expect leetcode to be the basis of hiring?
4-5 years from now - do you still expect leetcode to be the basis of hiring?
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At some point, the emphasis shifted (or slipped, more like it) from a genuine attempt to understand a candidate’s thinking and general approach to problem solving to a binary test of “right” and “wrong.” It went from an intelligent discussion about the nuances of a solution in context, to a mindless hunt for a contrived optimum (time complexity, usually—space complexity, code quality, or anything else that actually matters in the real world be damned; just jam it into a map, baby).
Somebody, somewhere, some years ago slipped up and hired a code monkey. Just like any other disease vector, it only takes one. That monkey went out and started interviewing candidates themselves; monkeys beget monkeys, as you can imagine, and now the entire industry is overrun with them.