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Comment by brutus1213 | Hacker News Reader

How do you figure out the leetcode employers from the non-leetcode ones? I refuse to interview at a few major companies because I know that's how they roll. I actually love coding and am good at it. I just refuse to spend weeks/months studying for I consider a useless test.

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A spreadsheet of companies that eschew algorithm/leetcode style questions, and information on what they do use instead:

https://airtable.com/shr5TdnpVYVTpeRrN/tbluCbToxQ2knSLhh

Similar to the first link, as a github repo: https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards

Information related to companies, their culture/values, and hiring process: https://www.keyvalues.com/

Sometimes it is mentioned in the job description under the interview process. Other times you can ask; it's a great question for the initial call.

Also, I've found that smaller companies and consulting companies tend to avoid leetcode style interviews. #anecdata

If there isn’t any info online about their interview process, you can ask the recruiter if they have any algorithm-based interviews in their process. I’ve found probably 1/3 of the recruiters that reach out to me on LinkedIn will end up telling me if they do or not without requiring me to hop on the phone with them.

Alternatively check out my other post in this thread if you’re looking to target those non-LeetCode jobs specifically!

> How do you figure out the leetcode employers from the non-leetcode ones?

ask the first recruiter? put it in your emails? ask your friends about their employers?

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