Hacker News Reader

yeah I just dont get why we have to make the coding exercises algorithmic.

I care more about like, do I have to hold your hand or not? no I dont. Okay we are cool.

I'm not a fan of leetcode questions on a whiteboard, and I personally don't ask those. However for an online automated assessment, provided the question is reasonably time-boxed and not too crazy, I think that's fine, on both side of the interviews.

The questions available at CodeWars page seem the best for me: They are no "gotcha," algorithmic questions (except the higher level ones) and they allow for a good amount of problem solving.

The ones at LeerCode are asinine... oh, you dont remember Dynamic programming? Tough luck. Even if you really wont use it at all.

It has to be simple, not too hard. That first test is basically a screening. Will I invest an engineer's hour to try to figure you out?

Then, if you get to a whiteboard challenge, in those the end result is not usually what matters, but the process of problem solving is what you typically look for.

Can we communicate effectively? Will you thrive here?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com