memoryIsAllYouNeed
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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I heard he lost the job after he read all the terms and conditions when installing the IDE
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All 500?
*looks up current number of problems*
Over 3300…
“okay congratulations on landing the job, on your first day let’s start with something easy, you need to center this div..”
“what’s a div”
This is, unfortunately, true, at least for Google. My colleague from uni drilled LeetCode and other typical algorithms exercises for a year. 4 rounds of interviews, all LeetCode style… for a “researcher in ML” position. Then got assigned to write boring low-level C++ for DBs. Yet for recruiting he did not need anything but typical algos & data structures in Python (since he could use any language). Other friend – exactly the same story, also Google, also only algorithms, but at least got to work on YouTube.
Cool, but he got fired after his first PR was reviewed.
Even if true, they’d instantly fire you once you prove unable to understand and expand their actual codebase.
And the name of his friend? ChatGPT
isn’t hash table and priority queue like the solution to most of leet code problems.
aka the AI way
Where are the questions/answers – asking for a friend ?
So, they studied?
Hashmap
Having done a single interview for a WORDPRESS FREELANCE position that required Leetcode portion in the interview, AND having over 10 years web dev experience in HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, SQL, WordPress, AND having had multiple full time positions ranging from Agency developer to small team building a multi-million dollar e-comm platform from scratch to run a stable of 10 websites in the same company, I can first-hand say how AWFUL LeetCode tests are and how you HAVE to memorize these useless problems to pass the interview.
And no i did NOT pass the test in the interview, and yes I did go on to get a job making MORE than the job i failed the interview for.
Then after a month, was on pip
Well tbh most of them anyways require pattern recognition. Shortest path? Use the BFS algorithm. O(logn) ? Binary search. So you do need to memorize a lot of patterns. Solving questions based on intuition is quite difficult in 45 mins.
Demm
What a great title, made me rolling!
This, dear friends, is how PSPACE works.
If this is true then it explained a lot why Google and Facebook burned trillions on worthless techs that some Chinese startups could surpass with a fraction of the cost lmao
WHAT!?…no way this is real
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