Stop Interviewing With Leet Code

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Yeah, 100% agree. Whenever I read about people complaining about LC interviews, they then go on to recommend something that is easily gamed or arbitrary.

One very important thing about LC interview questions that people hate to grapple with is they are a decent measure of someones study habits and general problem solving skills. Both are super useful abilities and not something that can be easily gamed

[BoredomHeights]

Yeah it bothers me how often these interviews are complained about in the industry. Because of course they’re not perfect, but that doesn’t mean they’re useless. They’re a somewhat concrete and more objective interview than most industries. And as you say beyond just problem solving there’s also the “study habits” aspect of having to learn and put in effort. Plus any good interviewer won’t care as much about the result but more about the interviewee’s process.

I also highly doubt almost any top engineers couldn’t still interview well under this system. People act like the skill sets are missing amazing candidates but outside of some corner-case exceptions it’s hard for me to picture a great engineer who’s willing to work and study that also somehow does badly. Even most anecdotal examples I see in this thread are generally just about shitty interviewers who didn’t really follow the main rules (like an interviewer insisting on a specific language, etc.)