Hackerrank was broken - but now it's actually harmful — segfaulte
I had an interesting conversation with some junior and mid-level engineers recently. They were pretty discouraged about whiteboading coding tests. Apparently, they've gotten significantly harder over the last two years.
Everyone's inverting binary trees these days.
I got my hands on a few questions they've given someone with 1 YoE and 3 YoE. They were extremely hard, especially for someone at that experience level.
I think these companies are not actually testing problem solving ability anymore....
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