[fnimick]

Who needs LLM-accelerated coding for that? Leetcode was already comically unrealistic as an evaluation of actual engineering skill. When's the last time you had to solve an algorithm puzzle without any ability to do research or check references?

Shoutout to the interview I had where I was asked a tricky graph question, reasoned my way to the optimal solution, then failed because I "should have recognized" that it was a variant of Djikstra's algorithm from the beginning. As we all know, being able to regurgitate an existing algorithm shows far more promise than being able to logically create it yourself!

[bckr]

I think that this shows how these interviews are really just a way to not get sued for discrimination when an interviewer just doesn’t like you.