Sorry we made you grind LeetCode

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That line is on billboards around SF now. HackerRank didn’t invent algorithmic interviews, but we helped normalize a version of technical hiring that turned into months of grinding questions with little connection to the actual job. Technical interviews have come a long way: from “How many golf balls fit in a 747? ” to reading code over the phone, writing it on a whiteboard, and eventually solving LeetCode-style problems. Each step got us a little closer to the work. But we were still mostly evaluating how well someone had prepared for an interview, not how well they could build software.

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