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by caminante 216 days ago
Your phrasing lines up with snarky "Why can't <nationality> do <alternative>?" with no substantive argument.

If serious, it was and still is a common screening tool for big tech and many other shops around the world.
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LandR 216 days ago
It wasn't snarky at all. You are being overly defensive for no reason.

I've never been asked to "grind" leetcode, I've never been asked a leetcode style question at any interview I've had (and I'm in my mid 40s). I've never had any feeling of needing to do leetcode, and as far as I know neither have my friends.

The reason I asked if it was mainly a US thing was because I assume (maybe wrongly) that the majority of HN users are in the US, and this leetcode thing pops up a lot.

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caminante 216 days ago
OP expressly said "big tech," which isn't US exclusive.

> I've never been asked a leetcode style question at any interview I've had (and I'm in my mid 40s).

For this anecdote to be relevant, you'd need to have datapoints from "big tech" qualifying jobs.

Glossing over this qualifier pattern matches with snarky comments.

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