4-5 years from now - do you still expect leetcode to be the basis of hiring?
God I hope not
coding interviews have been industry standard for a long time, no?
Yes - but there is a growing breed which focuses on take home to evaluate your design skills and buy-in. And then the on-site rounds consist of small enhancements and attitude. Much less on how well you can handle segment trees for example.
I agree - my argument is that it’s something I can learn off google in a few hours. Decent system design and implementation not so much.
I'm noticing more and more is moving to "I have this 500 line code sample. Help me implement this addition to it."
Are there some good examples of this? We are trying to manufacture some samples for our team interviews but the additions are either too simple from an algorithms standpoint or a 1-2 day task (not 30-45 min).
Coding interviews aren’t the problem. It’s the interviewers themselves who are the problem. 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.
Totally agreed. Very well written as well.
Nothing in this industry is here to stay. Nothing. That's a promise.
Google kinda started the whole trend I think. And you don't see them complaining about getting bad talent. Every Googler I have talked to says that everyone they work with is competent and smart. Which means that leetcoding interviews yield strong candidates. Until their process starts to yield subpar candidates, I cannot see them or anyone else changing it.
Interview has changed to like an exam. They somehow value this more than GPA or college which requires passing of a lot more processes over a long time. Interview should test something that is not verified but instead it tests the same thing. With this same style of interviewing, there is no point of even interviewing someone from high bar companies such as Google or Facebook yet people ask same questions to those folks wasting everyone’s time and effort. What is the point of this? Why don’t you just hand out an offer to them regardless of what they worked and how they worked or communication skills. The interview used to about gauging one’s thinking ability and finding if one has good logical process and communication skills and discussing about technical depths that branch out from there but now it is a binary question. Basically you practice more, you get the offer.
In 5 years I don’t think coding will be nearly as lucrative as it is today.
Yeah this computer thing is just a fad
My prediction - Robots will start taking interviews in 5-10 years time. Interview questions will be AI driven.
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What are the alternatives?
Hackathon. Lol