This is crazy and needs to stop indeed it's like you have:
- A degree (In which you've proven you can understand these algos and spent 4 years studying)
I'm not going to redo all that in 1 week before your stupid puzzle!
- Experience (That has to be worth something it's not like everyone is lying about it)
- You may have open source contributions
But no, some companies will not even start to look at that or not look at all, before
they ask you this stupid puzzle.
Personally I now filter those companies out, I mean 20 years of experience, contributions
in major open source projects, if you can't recognize that? why would I interview?
Were I work now we give code assignments, while they take longer to do you can actually see structure which I agree with the author is the top quality I'm looking for. They are also less stressful for the candidate.
- A degree (In which you've proven you can understand these algos and spent 4 years studying)
- Experience (That has to be worth something it's not like everyone is lying about it)- You may have open source contributions
But no, some companies will not even start to look at that or not look at all, before they ask you this stupid puzzle.
Personally I now filter those companies out, I mean 20 years of experience, contributions in major open source projects, if you can't recognize that? why would I interview?
Were I work now we give code assignments, while they take longer to do you can actually see structure which I agree with the author is the top quality I'm looking for. They are also less stressful for the candidate.