Comment by SJC_Hacker
Comment by SJC_Hacker 6 hours ago
The bar is so high nowadays that simply being able to talk intelligentyly about the problem, ask clarifying questions, getting an inefficient solution and coding it up well does not pass muster.
Even getting an efficient algorithm basically right, is no guarantee.
In some cases there might be alternative solutions which have some tradeoffs, and you might have to come up with those, as well
Miss a counterexample? Even if you get it after a single hint?. Fuck you, you're out. I can find someone who doesn't need the hint
It might be true in the general case, I haven't interviewed for a job for some years, so I may be out of touch.
All I can say is that I do conduct interviews, and that I follow the above philosophy (at least for my round).