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by ssaturn 1848 days ago
I am on the job hunt right now with about 5 years of experience. How do you find jobs that do not require technical interviews? Every single company I have applied to (about 10 so far) has required LeetCode style interviews
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Maybe in Europe it is different? There is still a coding part, but is somewhat relevant to the job position (build an API that does xyz etc)
> Maybe in Europe it is different? There is still a coding part, but is somewhat relevant to the job position

Anecdata: In Europe but have had more than a handful of these nonsense Leetcode tests. Normally for companies with an inflated sense of their own worth - but possible to spot this from their mission statement, website, etc. and avoid them.

> Normally for companies with an inflated sense of their own worth

This is also my experience, crappy Berlin startups that pay poorly and expect you to jump through hoops and work long hours. I switched to contracting and haven't had to do any of these silly tests, I usually discuss the project and my past projects and that's enough. A few times I've been asked to do a take home challenge which I don't mind and actually quite enjoy. Separated from the interview process I find some of the leetcode type challenges kind of fun, like doing a puzzle but they have been of very little practice use to me in my work.

As of 2020, most SV interviews for Devops/SRE were not Leetcode - just normal programming, though possibly kinda lengthy.

In 2021, it's a few percent higher. The one I saw recently was related to checking for N matches against M permutations.

All required passing a test suite.