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Please stop the coding challenges

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paxys ◴[] No.42148318[source]
The more people online complain about coding interviews, the more confident I am that they are the absolute best way to filter candidates for a software development job. Across the industry there are way too many talkers/pretenders/meeting schedulers and not enough people who can roll up their sleeves, jump into the code and actually get stuff done. And this problem becomes worse at higher levels. You can bitch about it all you want, but you aren't owed that cushy $500K/yr FAANG job. If you can't get yourself to brush up on basic programming and write some for loops then companies will simply move on to someone who will.
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1. vunderba ◴[] No.42150242[source]
Agreed. And a lot of people will say that you can just memorize a bunch of leetcode problems, but I've always created custom coding problems when I've acted as an interviewer so good luck finding the solutions online.

And frankly, if they're able to adapt a random leetcode problem to be able to solve the coding test that I give them, then that's exactly the kind of adaptability that I'm looking for in a prospective software engineer.