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u/fungibletoken15 1d ago
Unfortunately this isn’t that lunatic. There are interview prep businesses out there that teach you how to crack big tech interviews. In an ideal world, an interviewer should be able to spot the difference between someone who has just prepped for the interview vs someone who will truly bring value to your company but more often than not, these interviewers are themselves junior candidates who have volunteered to interview because it’s a check mark on their promo packet.
Also these interviews are extremely objective ie there is no room for interpretation. You either got the problem or you didn’t which is all the hiring committee sees.
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u/ecrane2018 1d ago
Don’t know much about code but this seems like sound advice?
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u/Dismal-Detective-737 1d ago
If your HR can't separate good engineers without who can jump through some proprietary website's code tests you have an HR problem.
No other industry has this mind set of forcing applicants to grind themselves. They themselves said that they have non genus $200k employees because they learned the song and dance of HR, not that they were actually $200k employment.
Not to mention 3 hours a day for 6 months? You're missing out on the best employees over the ones that memorized the answer key to the test.
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u/Financial-Focus8530 1d ago
No one is arguing the process isn't stupid or that it selects the best employees, but what the post says is correct. The LC grind is the differentiator between low-paying and high-paying jobs. That's just the way it is and has been for a long time
And are you forgetting about finance? Because that industry requires people to grind brain-teaser problems related to prob/stats to pass the interview....
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u/pydry 23h ago
>No other industry has this mind set of forcing applicants to grind themselves
Off the top of my head becoming a doctor and finance are both exactly like this.
>Not to mention 3 hours a day for 6 months? You're missing out on the best employees over the ones
of course. however that's still just how it is.
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u/taco-prophet 20h ago
The one positive thing I'll say about leetcoding interviews is that is tends (not always) to select for people who have some level of long term intrinsic motivation. But otherwise it's a farce.
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u/ecrane2018 1d ago
3 hours a day is a pretty minimal time commitment and it isn’t saying it’s the only way it’s just stating it helps a lot.
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u/Dismal-Detective-737 1d ago
3 hours a day with a full time job and a life after graduation? 3 hours is a huge investment. It's a half time job at 21 hours/week.
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u/ecrane2018 1d ago
And you can not put that effort in and make 60k. It’s not required it’s optional to do better in your field and it’s a short term time investment you could also do 1 and a half hours over 12 months and yield that same results. This is purely advice to do better and stand out. Some teachers to get a small increase spend 2 years in a masters program that costs a lot of money and takes significantly more time than 3 hours a night for 6 months and that’s for a 10k salary increase.
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u/krespyywanted 1d ago
Nah OP is not a lunatic - these are just straight up facts. Whether we like it or not is another matter.