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Comment by cmrdporcupine | Hacker News Reader

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.

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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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