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The sad point is that in the current state, you get two leetcode style questions for round interview, and that's it. Good luck with that;

There is 0 interest in companies to improve the quality of the interview process. 0. They'd rather increase the funnel, instead improving the rate of good talent detection.

There is enough new fodder to go through every year, that improving quality of detecting good engineers, is not that important.




> you get two leetcode style questions for round interview, and that's it. Good luck with that;

that is really good luck. Where else can you get a relaxed "i feel like taking the afternoon off (my personal take back then when i was windsurfing - the wind has picked up very good, and thus i'm gone)" $500K+/year just for memorizing a bit of stuff? We have it best in the history of humanity. Yet still the whining. Until one has a disability preventing mastering leetcode, the failure to do so clearly indicates something like attitude issues and/or lazyness and/or lack of focus/discipline. Hard to argue about usefulness of such a filter.

>There is enough new fodder to go through every year,

some say that AMZN in some markets has practically exhausted the candidates pool, so lets see whether it would cause any changes


> Until one has a disability preventing mastering leetcode, the failure to do so clearly indicates something like attitude issues and/or lazyness and/or lack of focus/discipline.

Or too busy with their current work, to memorize the strutting brogrammer answer key.


> $500K+/year just for memorizing a bit of stuff?

This seems to be understating the effort required to actually get hired.

I doubt anyone can just do Leetcode during their free time in the weekend and expect to pass most of the tests.

It also doesn't take into non-technical obstacles like being good in communication, being the "right" culture fit, etc.




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