Faster Coding Interview Prep Using Interactive Visualizations

Perhaps the next thing will be AI driven coding interview robots. Why bother with people when you can optimize the whole process without human intervention? Call it Being Interviewed As A Service.

I always hated algorithm interviews when it came to applying for web development jobs. I&#x27;ve been a developer for 8 years now and I have only had to use any algorithms once in my career. I get it that for facebook, google, and what not these could be representative of the work you do but I don&#x27;t think this is a good interview.<p>I tend to look for developers now that have a better sense of modeling and api design. One interview that works really well is modeling a chat app and going through all the edge cases. Also a fan of Rob&#x27;s Pairing Interview that is executed by pivotal. Build an array or perhaps a set from scratch and pair on building it where the interviewer is a driver and the interviewee as the navigator.

Windows user here. .mediumTextViewer class has a overflow-x: scroll on it which makes everything look like this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;kE2ElEv.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;kE2ElEv.png</a><p>Switch it to auto and it will look a lot cleaner.<p>Otherwise cool site

Is the industry staying focused on algorithms written in imperative Object Oriented languages for interview quizzes, or has anyone seen more functional styles being used? I know Facebook does a lot with OCaml so I wonder if they are strict about requiring proficiency in OOP patterns, or if it depends on what you put on your resume.

<i>Engineers have used Coderust to crack the coding interviews at Google, Amazon, Snapchat, Uber, Dropbox, Lyft, Facebook, Microsoft, Netflix, Zenefits, Pinterest, eBay, Twitter, Cloudera, Salesforce, Tableau and many others.</i><p>If one can &quot;crack&quot; these interviews by spending a couple of hours on some interactive tool... then shouldn&#x27;t that be an indication to those conducting these kinds of interviews that, fundamentally speaking, they might not be all that useful in the first place?<p>And not only that - but perhaps <i>counterproductive</i>? In that they explicitly reward not the thoughtful, disciplined engineers you want to hire -- but the drudges and go-getters who think, &quot;Gots to get me into a top company - just tell me what I gotta do to pass the test!&quot;<p>Shouldn&#x27;t it now?

Can anyone suggest if this is good and worth the money ? I&#x27;m planning interviews at top 5 next year.

Wonder if this got to the top of the front page because it looks like &quot;Code Rust&quot;.<p>It has nothing to do with Rust, of course.

Is HN now allowing advertisements for services to be on the front page now?