noleetcode

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by noleetcode 2y ago
Just for one anecdote, three years ago my then-dentist (who was a part of a franchise practice and probably under pressure to bill) told me that I had 12 (!!) cavities across all quadrants of my mouth that needed to be filled immediately. I
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by noleetcode 3y ago
Here's the difference: I bet you had time to think through the novel problems and didn't have someone hovering over your shoulder, demanding you come up with solutions within 20 - 30 minutes -or else-.
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by noleetcode 3y ago
The example I always give people is imagine that you're a civil engineer and you walk into the interview and they have a bunch of Popsicle sticks, sticky tack, and a bowling ball. They inform you that your interview is to build a bridg
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by noleetcode 3y ago
Not at Microsoft, but have been at a company for a very long time being underpaid. I haven't left simply due to one issue: I refuse to do leetcode interviews. I've dipped my toes into the waters every once in a while and even the
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by noleetcode 3y ago
Would you be willing to share your story of how you made the switch? CS major here considering going into medicine (despite your best efforts to convince otherwise :) ) but the general coursework wasn't something I targeted in school a
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by noleetcode 5y ago
Anecdotal on my part, but I interviewed with them earlier this year. I was told by the recruiter (an internal recruiter, to be clear, not a third-party), in no uncertain terms, that their interview process did not involve "leetcode-sty
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by noleetcode 5y ago
That is fair. I have not encountered them myself, nor ever been an interviewee where "tablestakes" is the bar and not "hard leetcode haha I know the answer and you don't~~", but I absolutely acknowledge, recognize,
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by noleetcode 5y ago
> because they’re not qualified In an industry that is deadset on focusing on worthless leetcode puzzles as the major gating factor for a hire decision, I struggle to understand how someone "banging away hopelessly" is decidedl
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by noleetcode 5y ago
> All of them consider themselves extremely lucky that they landed a job at a great company and believe that if they had to re-interview for the same position, odds are much more likely they'd utterly fail it. I expect we'd see
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by noleetcode 5y ago
I've taken to simply waste interviewer's time at this point. I'll schedule an interview, find out it's a leetcode one, and still plan to attend. With everything remote now, I can just completely check out. Watch a video
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by noleetcode 5y ago
Hah, I don't mean to be rude but, this is what everyone claims they do, but no-one actually practices it. The simple fact of the matter is, is that if you can't 100% solve the problem, in 30 minutes or less, without asking questio
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by noleetcode 5y ago
I share the same experiences. Only around half of your (temporal) experience and every conversation with a recruiter ends the same way: "When can we schedule you for a technical screening? You'll probably want some time to brush u
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by noleetcode 5y ago
Sure you can. At least, if our baseline for "realism" is, "an approximation of what someone will do on the job". I'd say asking someone to regurgitate some solution for a random leetcode problem is far worse an appr
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by noleetcode 5y ago
I do. I used to reject recruiter's advances the moment they described the interview process as a leetcode-hazing ritual (my words, not theirs), but as I've become even more grumpy/depressed over the poor state of things I mig
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by noleetcode 5y ago
For myself it's a combination of morals as well as the fact that I've simply become so depressed due to my current place of work that I don't think I have the capability to engage in the prep work, never mind that particular
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by noleetcode 5y ago
It's funny, where everyone else seems to have the problem of "ideas are a dime a dozen, but time to execute is scarce", I just have zero ideas. My only true passion in the world of software development is gaming (the one area
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by noleetcode 5y ago
I suppose I probably should at least just start some interviews and then decline at the point that they start leetcoding-proper (even if that's during the actual interview itself). DS& (common) A isn't a problem at its core (a
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by noleetcode 5y ago
I'd love nothing more than to go out and get a new job, but I swore years ago to never again participate in leetcode hazing interviews, and every recruiter I've spoken to (15+ in the past few months) has described exactly that as
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by noleetcode 5y ago
I will, quite literally, take those old video cards off your hands. I have a hoarder mentality when it comes to old tech and love collecting it.
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by noleetcode 5y ago
Absolutely no relation to my technical abilities for any job I'd be looking at (besides, of course, passing an interview to begin with). Please don't get me wrong: if it was just a few days of practicing, I'd just get it over
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by noleetcode 5y ago
Unfortunately the people I have (had?) a good enough relationship with where I feel like I could ask for favors like that just moved on to other big tech companies that all do the same leetcode hazing. Definitely would have been something I
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by noleetcode 5y ago
I'd love to, as I'm really tired of my current employer, and they're definitely taking advantage of me, but I resolved to never waste my time with leetcode garbage again... which means I either stay where I'm at, or exi