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This week I had the opportunity to talk to alumni that were able to point me in a great direction and give feedback on their current roles at their companies. It felt refreshing to hear that not all companies stick to certain practices of testing your knowledge via leetcode and codewars, especially if you’re new to them.
Coming from my Bootcamp we studied intensely, however, grazed over certain riddles and algorithms that you find on these websites such as leetcode.com and codewars.com. Seeing job descriptions test you on these practices could feel intimidating for a newcomer and felt as if it undermined my capabilities as a coder. Luckily, when I reached out to fellow alumni whose current position is at Lyft, it was a pleasure to understand she was able to relate to my exact thoughts and didn't have to go through such practices there.
It seems that some companies understand that not all students graduate with a formal CS degree, aren’t leet code genies, cultivated a new hiring process fir the new age. This is done by asking practical technical questions that you would actually do on the job. Examples being to debug and fix a broken site, create new APIs, or fetch’s to connect to the backend.
In my opinion, questions like these illustrate your ability to retain knowledge from your Bootcamp and give you the ability to apply it in real-world scenarios. I am not by any means saying learning algorithms aren’t important since you need it for certain logic for your applications. However, candidates are far more intricate than simply solving palindromes from coding challenges.
This is why she openly shared a list of companies with a new style for technical interviews. If your curious about a list of companies the same way I was, feel free to click the link below. Cheers
