When FAANG hires a rockstar with tons of community contributions, do they make that person leetcode?
For example Google hired Guido Van Rossum (creator of python) and Jon Skeet (number #1 stack overflow contributor, .net God, owner of the best last name imaginable). Do these people go through the “normal” interview process where a pimply face 28 year old tries to get them to find the longest palindrome in a string in nlogn time, or does someone higher at the company decide that’s not a good use of anyone’s time?
Van rossum is in Microsoft
Thank the gods
Of course. Homebrew author was rejected at google as he couldn’t solve some binary tree problem. He tweeted that almost all google developers with MacBook use homebrew at some point. Still he couldn’t clear google interviews. Basically he studied chemistry and didn’t have a major in computer science. So leetcode is the way to go. His tweet: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?s=21
Yea that was really stupid. Also we hear just one side. Maybe instead of giving the interview he was constantly repeating homebrew and how great he was. Also Van Rossum is another level
Tbf, inversion of binary tree is not that hard. Given he created homebrew he should’ve been strong in trees and graphs as it’s a dependency management system. So I think google is right in this case.
No because they’re hired for strategic and PR purposes. So why put them through LC?
Good engineers don't need to study LC to pass the interviews
I’ve met some very smart programmers, even ones who might be true geniuses. But I’m not sure they could solve a DP hard in 1 hour having never done DP before
lol amazon you’re wrong. either you get outrageously lucky and get easy questions, prep hard or have done competitive programming before in which case you don’t need to leetcode
Guido- maybe not Jon Skeet - worked at Google before he became SO legend
You think these guys go around asking for referrals ?