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0 pointsthrowaway2342953y ago0 comments

From my experience interviewing for FAANG or unicorn roles.

* Nobody asked culture-fit questions

* Nobody was interested in portfolio, side projects, or GitHub.

* I was not asked questions related to the role.

* Only presented with a leetcode screen

If you move away from the FAANG/unicorn scene, the interview process becomes more personable, and I was actually asked questions related to the role.

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29athrowaway3y ago

There are many leetcode champs who are completely helpless in front of a computer.

The premise of emphasizing leetcode is to get developers who can solve problems fast.

But if the only thing someone knows is competitive programming, and not operating systems, distributed systems, network protocols, serialization formats, libraries and frameworks and pretty much everything that's required to implement actual software, that person won't be able to solve problems fast. In fact, that person may reinvent the square wheel and waste resources.

JKCalhoun3y ago

I can only say this was me as interviewer, this was Apple. I was happy to talk about apps/code they had shipped/written.

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