Mr Pichai ban LeetCode questions at Google!

Apple
googlyaf

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googlyaf
Apr 24, 2021 580 Comments

The suit will follow to all copy cat like companies like fb, Amazon will stop asking it too and it will help people with personal lives and families not grind leetcode if they want to work for you.

#banLeetCodeInterviews

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TOP 580 Comments
  • I bet my life savings that Mr.Pichai is not on this app.
    Apr 24, 2021 14
  • Um, leetcode copies from Google interview questions. Other way...
    Apr 24, 2021 9
  • Uber
    8437893

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    8437893
    I don't understand folks here.

    Folks are okay grinding weeks if not months for the job, but a take home that takes some hours over the weekend is apparently too much time to invest for a job?
    Apr 24, 2021 48
    • Google
      d-ll-b

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      d-ll-b
      Take homes are great especially if you are trying to get into the field and role that you want to take the next step in your career, helped me tremendously. But after a point you know you can leverage a lot more companies in less time if each company is a limited time interview. Even timed take homes that are capped at a couple hours are fine, but the open ended take homes (which I used to enjoy) are something I actively avoid now
      Apr 27, 2021
    • Google is what it is today by the people who went through their code jam 10 years ago.
      Apr 27, 2021
  • I thought google dont ask leetcode questions
    Apr 24, 2021 13
    • Wayfair
      weyfair

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      weyfair
      The guy also didn't accept a 2d matrix, it had to be a graph with nodes of like 4 walls, and then the space, it could only have one solution, and it had to be complicated.

      Took me like 15 mins to understand what he wanted, as I asked more questions I was more confused 🤪
      Apr 27, 2021
    • Amazon
      sadamazon

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      sadamazon
      I found the "build me a maze" question internally in Google, it's actually a banned question
      Apr 28, 2021
  • Rubrik
    saberli

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    saberli
    Can you propose an alternative interview style? One that does not require way too much time (like take homes).
    Apr 24, 2021 60
    • NVIDIA
      k9oi73

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      k9oi73
      I'm not defending LC as being the way to interview, i just question the fact you need to memorize it, that's not it. If some interviewers ask you to do that, then they're bad interviewer, but the problem is not with LC but with the interviewers, same is true if during a system design interview the interviewers only expect a single design and has no place for discussion.

      I maintain that being able to solve LC kind of problem is part of the requirements (and of course not the only one).

      So the problem is bad interviewer, the question is how to better train the interviewer rather than complaining about LC kind of questions (and yes I'm sure there are some bad questions on LC, but that doesn't invalidate the kind of questions in general, which are just pure cs fundamental knowledge that should be required as part of the job).
      All the proposition for interview i have seen so far have exactly the same flaw, take-home project? They will be on some website and you won't even have to memorize them 😅. System design? They will be on Internet and you can't prevent an interviewer to be looking for a specific design. Domain knowledge? It favors those who can BS you with some nice talk, etc.

      I think interview should cover as much as possible as the required skills, that includes LC, but also system design, debugging skills, domain specific knowledge, ...
      Apr 27, 2021
    • Amazon
      noobsd

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      noobsd
      LC = Spelling bee , SWE = Writer. You need to know spellings to be a writer. But you don't need to excel at it. However, FAANG interviews generally have a higher standard for the spelling bee part, hence the correlation really doesn't make any sense.

      The fact that they will ask you hard LC questions ( graphs, trees etc) which you have to had solved before and know the implementation beforehand otherwise there is no way you can come up with the solution in 1 hour. Which is the memorization part.

      FAANG interviews have unreasonable high standards for these interviews im not against them , because of the huge talent pool they need an elimination mechanism.

      But tbh knowing that much LC isnt really gonna benefit you in the software career. Since at that level, with the time constraint and lack of documentation, you are basically doing competitive programming.

      Hence im against LC interviews because they require a lot of practice and separate preparation. It is not something you do day to day as an SWE.
      May 5, 2021