Fattestmoron

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by Fattestmoron 5y ago
My role isn't to assess if you're competent or not. My role is to assess if I want you on my team or not. There's a difference. Pretty much sums up how the hiring process is a gamble. So if you don't like somebody and
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by Fattestmoron 5y ago
FAANG just wants immediate, perfect solutions. The OA is also now exclusively hards. People on Blind talking about giving interviews and only accepting perfect, canned solutions. No talking through, no hints, or you fail.
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by Fattestmoron 5y ago
I was given problems that I hadn't encountered before, but I was able to solve them by deduction/critical thinking and applying the appropriate algorithms/patterns. Often the easy solution and the optimal solution weren
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by Fattestmoron 5y ago
If you're talking FAANG you're talking hard level. If you're talking a company that fancies itself FAANG, you're talking medium-hard while being treated like a human septic tank, which could happen at FAANG as well. I th
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by Fattestmoron 5y ago
The more experience I have the harder they are for me to solve, as engineering problems tend to have very different mental models to reach the solution. That is what I think the true purpose of it is. It's poorly hidden age dis
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by Fattestmoron 5y ago
Funny thing is I had an interview some years ago and he asked me about cycle detection, so I gave the basic set approach, then added the tortoise and hare as a memory free solution. It immediately made him uncomfortable and I didn't ge
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by Fattestmoron 5y ago
Dude, that will not carry you through a hard problem. You need the pocket Dijkstra, Kruskals, Union-find, Bellman-Ford, KMP, Kadanes (sliding window), LCS, DP (1-n dimensional), Topological Sorting, NP-hard heuristics (usually DP), BFS, DFS
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by Fattestmoron 5y ago
Going to call bullshit on that, since in recent interviews most people have been getting hard problems and not "trapped rainwater" prefix sum hard problems, but the kind where the optimal solution has nearly 100 lines of code invo
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by Fattestmoron 5y ago
Can be anywhere from 1 minute to hours, depends on the problem. The whole classification thing is kind of ridiculous, because some hard problems are easy and some mediums are hard.
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by Fattestmoron 5y ago
Not in the US it doesn't. The turnover rate if anything is a symptom of the problems in the industry.
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by Fattestmoron 5y ago
So if I asked you a complex architectural question, or an algorithmic question and you froze, would it mean that you are an incompetent manager? Clearly thinking on your feet in front of people is what it means to be good at ones profession
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by Fattestmoron 5y ago
No, it won't. Leetcode is currently the enforced path to the 6 figure salary.
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by Fattestmoron 5y ago
I actually like puzzles where I see that it involves analytical thinking, or creativity. Open-ended stuff where I am allowed to let my mind take over and not worry about a time limit or some artificial constraints. I also find it unbearable
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by Fattestmoron 5y ago
Sure, thanks, I'd appreciate it, or at least it would be interesting to see what is being done in that area.
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by Fattestmoron 5y ago
Rekt... exactly what a lot of us have been predicting and why it's so hard to force oneself to "git gud" at solving these problems
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by Fattestmoron 5y ago
The math behind leetcode is induction and number theory, courses I took some 20 years ago along with DSA that I haven't used in productive engineering since.
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by Fattestmoron 5y ago
You are dead on. I am burnt out from my previous position and jumping through hoops for people who don't know what they are doing. The science degree was useful for when I did advanced math, before the finance industry figured it would
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Leetcode has taught me that I'm a bad engineer
408 points by Fattestmoron 5y ago|456 comments