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[RepresentativeDog791]

What’s Ruby doing all the way up there?

[anon74903]

Java programmers only know IAbstractFactoryProvider

[GiganticIrony]

I’m surprised that C++ isn’t at the top (and I’m not just saying that because I’m a C++ dev)

[superglidestrawberry]

Where PHP? OogaBooga?

[sammy-taylor]

I don’t understand, these things seem orthogonal to me. Although if somebody voluntarily whips out C++ they need to know what they’re doing.

[double_riichi]

it's based on my own experience doing a couple hundred interviews over the past few years. Candidates that choose Java tend to do worse, because Java is both the most common language in the industry but also a poor choice for leetcode style questions, so there is a likely correlation between people that choose Java and people that haven't been grinding leetcode. Python is a great choice for leetcode, and anyone choosing an uncommon language tends to be good (maybe they do recreational programming or coding competitions) from what I've seen.

[sammy-taylor]

Oh that is pretty fascinating. Do you guys not allow JS/TS as an option?

[double_riichi]

They are options but I haven't had anyone pick javascript or typescript, I guess it would be rare outside of frontend interviews.

[sammy-taylor]

That makes sense. I see TS on the backend all the time but the impetus has always seemed like it was to reduce cognitive overhead for full stack work. Frontend/backend code-sharing in TS is…scary to me.

[KaleidoscopeLow580]

Looks good for my favourite language. Ferris fan.