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by opportune
1095 days ago
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There's no perfect way, but fizzbuzz is perfectly acceptable to me (do you really want to work somewhere with employees who couldn't pass it?), and leetcode is too, as long as it doesn't rely on some trick that selects for memorizers over problem solvers. I don't know why HN is so against algorithms problems. It is not something I have ever needed to "grind" because I understand ds&a well. While the more exotic ds&a you won't use on the job, and IMO shouldn't be tested for, IME the most complicated datastructures you generally need for both algorithms problems and on the job are hashmaps and hashsets. |
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Probably because they use the ones you mention. They think an ideal engineer should be able to cold solve some level 5 leetcode problem using a Trie with some trick edge case to perfection in 90 minutes as if they are some sort of mathlete. It's not very realistic to what you do day to day and required dedicated studying simply to pass the test, not to advance myself as an engineer.
If they used level 1 questions as a fizz buzz esque filter for string manipulation, iterator tactics, and maps/sets, then I'd have no issue. I'd get why you may test a student for a junior position harder but a senior dev should have actual professional experiences to dig into.
If you can't trust them to code then maybe you should in fact do the FAANG method and describe what exact concepts you want prospective hires to be able to talk about and work with. Haven't seen that outside of FAANG tho.