Comment by sosilkj | Hacker News Reader

Comment by sosilkj | Hacker News Reader

This article provides advice for how to spruce up your resume in order to procure interviews.

Getting an interview is maybe 10% of the overall process.

To make it through the interviews, you need to study an algorithms textbook and practice coding exercises. At the very least, you should be able to solve any of the Easy-rated problems listed on Leetcode without issue. You need to know what things ike "dynamic programming" are, etc.

I'm not saying that this is the way things should be. Just that this is the reality of what you will need to do to procure a job offer.

Edit: I see my advice has proven controversial. If you have better idaes about how to prepare for whiteboard interviews -- which many of us are statistically likely to encounter should we be thrust into the job market -- please share your suggestions!

It saddens me that this is the way things have gone.

With 20+ years in the industry I can say that I never encountered this kind of thing until fairly recently. I know it was out there, especially with the BigCorps, just not that common when I was looking for work 10ish years ago.

It would be hard for me to stomach an interview like that without just walking out. I do not code on whiteboards.

start leetcoding hard everyday, its not possible to get a job these days even at tier 2-3 without leetcode screens.

I have never, in ten years, had to do leetcode to get a job. And what on earth is "tier 2-3"?

This whole subthread reads like it's escaped from r/cscareerquestions.

Thanks for sharing your perspective. Your experience is very different from mine. Are you trying to say that you believe whiteboard interviews are less common than I think they are? Or are you trying to say that there are ways to conduct a job search such that one can successfully avoid such interviews?

There are ways to get a job without leetcoding still. But they are becoming rarer and rarer.

I think it mainly involves focusing on non-tech companies (who, BTW, are also starting to join the leetcode cargo cult).

I got my current job at a non-tech company (bank) several years ago. I did not get leetcoded back then. The interview was mainly language and framework trivia. Nowadays, we have to subject candidates to leetcode.

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