[___luigi]

GREAT work!

I can understand why big companies use LC type of questions to assess coding skills of those who graduated recently or didn't enough experience to show their work, but I struggle to understand why many Startups adopted such way of evaluating engineers. I see many startups nowadays asking to candidates to reverse a tree, a task that doesn't reflect the daily work in a startup (where people change gears frequently). I understand that people interview to join the big company, pass a certain bar and then get matched to a team, the startup is too small to not have clarity on what skillset they are looking for.

[b20000]

reversing a tree does not mean you are capable of getting anything done, it just means you bought that shitty book called "cracking the coding interview" and grinded enough of the sort of questions the book covers. besides, you have grinded enough of that stuff in college, if you went to any reasonable quality college anywhere in the world with a CS program.