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I’ve never seen Leetcode test foundational knowledge. There are far better ways to do that than timed puzzles.

This used to be a pretty standard discussion a few years back when people still were being hired. I never saw any better way to systematically and somewhat fairly test a large number of candidates, so would you kindly elaborate on that statement?

This always reads like an admission - “Well of course it’s bad, but how else am I supposed to interview at mass scale?”

Why would you test a large number of candidates in the first place?

In a way it is this admission. Interviewing is a very difficult process to get right.

> Why would you test a large number of candidates in the first place?

How else do you do it for a company of the size of Google or Amazon?

See https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/ for some ideas.

The timed aspect is pretty discriminatory too. God forbid you have ADHD or anxiety.

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