Sorry we made you grind LeetCode(hackerrank.com)
8 points by ishanz | 6 comments
A HackerRank page titled "Sorry, we made you grind l**tcode" apologizing for LeetCode-style interview prep and promoting its Chakra product.
#technical-interviews on Hacker News
8 stories tagged technical-interviews, newest first.
Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced(github.com)
584 points by myahio | 307 comments
GitHub repository from Anthropic publishing its original performance-engineering take-home interview assignment, including Python problem files and tests, for anyone to try.
Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems(buttondown.com)
632 points by mpweiher | 499 comments
Hillel Wayne's Computer Things newsletter post arguing that many hard LeetCode interview problems are easily solved with constraint solvers.
Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills(hadid.dev)
403 points by mustaphah | 411 comments
Blog post by Mustapha Hadid arguing that live coding interviews are unfair and measure stress rather than actual coding ability.
Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI(kapwing.com)
347 points by justswim | 581 comments
Kapwing blog post by Eric Lu describing the experience of interviewing a software engineering candidate who used AI to prepare for or assist in the interview.
The FizzBuzz that did not get me the job(kranga.notion.site)
368 points by Andugal | 307 comments
A Notion blog post recounting a FizzBuzz technical interview exercise with evolving rules, written in TypeScript, that did not lead to a job offer.
Bug squash: An underrated interview question(blog.jez.io)
373 points by jez | 211 comments
Blog post describing the "bug squash" software engineering interview, where candidates find and fix a bug in an unfamiliar repository.
I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews(nelson.cloud)
354 points by nelsonfigueroa | 380 comments
A short opinion blog post by a former Robinhood engineer complaining that LeetCode-style coding interviews don't reflect real software engineering work.