If you have to "study" something for interviews every single time because it's absolutely not relevant to your day job - it's probably bullshit.
Everyone copies the FAANG interview process because it looks cool - except that FAANG is just a welfare program for recent graduates, who indulge in peer interview hazing because they are not doing anything else. They don't study for Leetcode because they want to DO something - they study because of the money. But in a real company you have to DO things.
What has Google done in the last decade that is REALLY useful? Google Gmail and Docs can be maintained by probably 50 people, their search has gotten useless and all they do is kill their own products because maintenance toil is a total drag.
Like the dumb brain teasers that Google "pioneered" in 2000s. How many golf balls can fit in a 747? I don't know, but I can estimate how many can fit up your a...
This Leetcode nonsense will go the way of THAT, in time.
It was Microsoft who started with the “golf balls in a plane” style questions.
Google iterated to the standard DSA questions that are common now.
And I don’t think they’re entirely without merit. However, people think you should be testing to find the ceiling. That’s impossible. Not only do you have the issue of whether or not the candidate just got lucky by getting a question they just happen to know, if you are hiring for a more junior position, it’s likely you don’t need them to know it in the first place.
Our goal should be to test the floor, not the ceiling. Find questions that can be answered by anyone with the skill set you desire. Sometimes that floor is: can you write runnable code.
We’ve just completed a hiring cycle where several candidates couldn’t transform a simple circuit diagram into a Boolean statement. One candidate who professed SQL knowledge who couldn’t write a simple query. And I mean “how many buckets do you have?” level of simple.
On paper, these candidates seemed good. Several even had GitHub repositories. But, end of the day, I’m going to ask you to do a task. I’m going to need it by a date. I’m going to need that completed without having to comb over it and possibly rewrite chunks of it.
I don’t need the next Linus Torvalds, but so many candidates come with greatly exaggerated resumes and we have to winnow somehow.
Everyone copies the FAANG interview process because it looks cool - except that FAANG is just a welfare program for recent graduates, who indulge in peer interview hazing because they are not doing anything else. They don't study for Leetcode because they want to DO something - they study because of the money. But in a real company you have to DO things.
What has Google done in the last decade that is REALLY useful? Google Gmail and Docs can be maintained by probably 50 people, their search has gotten useless and all they do is kill their own products because maintenance toil is a total drag.
Like the dumb brain teasers that Google "pioneered" in 2000s. How many golf balls can fit in a 747? I don't know, but I can estimate how many can fit up your a...
This Leetcode nonsense will go the way of THAT, in time.
Just no.