My Experience with New Grad Hiring

The point about “LeetCode isn’t enough” is extremely relevant. The Reddit forums are especially bad at making hiring sound like a matter of doing a couple LeetCode problems and getting hired. I’ve interviewed a lot of junior candidates who couldn’t really do anything other than silently solve specific LeetCode problems that they had memorized.

> There were a few occurrences where I received a technical screen and successfully passed all the presented test cases, but then would summarily receive a rejection the following day. Since the norm as I understand it from my experience is that one receives a first round interview or phone screening after a passing an automated technical screening, the only explanation I can imagine is a resume screening occuring after the technical screening instead of vice versa as usual.

From my experience on the hiring side: I would assume they hired someone else. Unfortunately the hiring process is unpredictable right up until someone accepts an offer and has a start date. Until then, you have to continue funneling new candidates into the pipeline.