Comment by Voloskaya
16 hours ago
Did you mean to type 25? 5 years ago LC challenge were as, if not more, prevalent than they are today. And a single interview for a job is not something I have seen ever after 15 years in the space (and a bunch of successful OSS projects I can showcase).
I actually have the feeling it’s not as hardcore as it used to be on average. E.g. OpenAI doesn’t have a straight up LC interview even though they probably are the most sought after company. Google and MS and others still do it, but it feel like it has less weight in the final feedback than it did before. Most en-vogue startup have also ditched it for real world coding excercices.
Probably due to the fact that LC has been thoroughly gamed and is even less a useful signal than it was before.
Of course some still do, like Anthropic were you have to have a perfect score to 4 leetcode questions, automatically judged with no human contact, the worst kind of interview.
I literally got my first real job 26 years ago by talking about my game engine, for a fintech firm.
There's an entire planet of jobs that have nothing to do with leetcode. I was talking about those, not FAANG stuff. Unfortunately I am not FAANG royalty.
>Of course some still do, like Anthropic were you have to have a perfect score to 4 leetcode questions, automatically judged with no human contact, the worst kind of interview.
Should be illegal honestly.
5 years ago non-FAANG companies were fully in leetcode mode for interviews. Maybe 10-15 years ago you could totally avoid it without much problem.
In most European companies that isn't a thing.
Thankfully not everything from SV culture gets adoption.
It might be illegal; certainly if you can show that LC is biased against a protected class, then there would be grounds for a lawsuit.
Only if there is enough evidence. Yes, I can say that the inability to account for things like the ADA in the US can place an employer in hot water, however, since LC doesn't make those decisions, they are immune. The accountability is placed upon the employer. Don't hate the players or the game. Maybe just figure out how to fix it without harming everyone, be popular enough to make said idea into law, and get into a position of power that allows you to do so. If that sounds hard, congrats, welcome to the reason why I never got into politics. Don't even get me started on all the people you will never realize you are hurting by fixing that one single problem.
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> certainly if you can show that LC is biased against a protected class, then there would be grounds for a lawsuit.
That wouldn't be hard to do. Given the disparate impact standard, everything is biased against a protected class.
> Should be illegal honestly.
I can't imagine this kind of entitlement. If you don't want to work for them, don't study leetcode. If you want to work for them (and get paid tons of money), study leetcode. This isn't a difficult aristotelian ethics/morals question.
I meant no human-in-the-loop wrt hiring, which is what I thought you were getting at.
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