alt Hacker NewsA colleague of mine came to me for advice. He wanted one of those high dollar jobs at a well-known MegaCorp. He knew a leetcode test was used by them. I suggested that his top priority was to study the leetcode books for the next 3 weeks. I told him those three weeks would be the best ROI he'd ever make.
He did so. He aced the test. He got the job with a huge offer. He agreed that the ROI was out of the park!
P.S. I'm curious what your test is for obvious frauds?
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> He did so. He aced the test. He got the job with a huge offer. He agreed that the ROI was out of the park!
...and everybody clapped?
I have news for you: passing an online leetcode is now so easy that an AI can do it. If you think you're catching the cheaters, you're just wrong.
Leetcode was always a stupid test of competence, but it was cheap and it had a high true-negative rate, which filtered the riff-raff. That isn't true anymore.
Doesn't this imply that, had your friend not taken your advice, he would have failed and thus been an "obvious fraud", but a mere 3 weeks transformed him from fraud to competent programmer?