TL;DR leetcode-style interview coding is (or should be, if done well) satisficing, not ranking. Being competent at it is just as good (possibly better, if it lets you show other strengths) as being great at it.
I would agree with this and upthread said basically the same thing. It’s a goodharted metric. Sure, if something can do it at all that’s one signal, but deciding between 10 candidates based on going to “2 mediums, 40 minutes” where only 1-2 will pass is essentially arbitrary.
The 1-2 who passed may have been better at LC than the failures, or may have been lucky this round.
Say 6 candidates finished at least 1 medium and were somewhere dealing with bugs on the second. Your test doesn’t realistically distinguish between that set of 6.
TL;DR leetcode-style interview coding is (or should be, if done well) satisficing, not ranking. Being competent at it is just as good (possibly better, if it lets you show other strengths) as being great at it.
I would agree with this and upthread said basically the same thing. It’s a goodharted metric. Sure, if something can do it at all that’s one signal, but deciding between 10 candidates based on going to “2 mediums, 40 minutes” where only 1-2 will pass is essentially arbitrary.
The 1-2 who passed may have been better at LC than the failures, or may have been lucky this round.
Say 6 candidates finished at least 1 medium and were somewhere dealing with bugs on the second. Your test doesn’t realistically distinguish between that set of 6.