[frithsun]

They're just encrypted IQ tests, working around the Duke Power supreme court ban on IQ testing employees.

You're being tested on your general intelligence, not because anybody cares about binary trees or reversing linked lists or whatever.

[hodgesrm]

> You're being tested on your general intelligence, not because anybody cares about binary trees or reversing linked lists or whatever.

A lot of interviewers missed that memo. They are in fact very focused on a specific algorithm or design approach. It's quite tiresome.

[John_Cena]

I've never been so deflated than after leaving a interview after bombing it and seeing the question they asked me on the front page of leetcode.