I guess my intuition is that the correlation between being good at giving career advice for techies and being able to solve algorithms puzzles is only moderate, and very little of that is causal.
It would be good to know if many people here, with little practice, can solve unseen leetcode hard problems in a BigTech interview format (where you have to simultaneously create a verbal narrative throughout the interview).
Fwiw I suspect this is pretty uncommon among EAs, including EAs in tech. I was unusually good at leetcode-style problems (both in general and especially relative to my ability to actually do useful work in programming), and I suspect my hit rate for novel LC Hard problems in 30 minutes was less than 50%*.
*I’ve regressed a lot in my algorithms puzzles ability, I’m not even confident I can consistently do LC Easys now.
I guess my intuition is that the correlation between being good at giving career advice for techies and being able to solve algorithms puzzles is only moderate, and very little of that is causal.
Fwiw I suspect this is pretty uncommon among EAs, including EAs in tech. I was unusually good at leetcode-style problems (both in general and especially relative to my ability to actually do useful work in programming), and I suspect my hit rate for novel LC Hard problems in 30 minutes was less than 50%*.
*I’ve regressed a lot in my algorithms puzzles ability, I’m not even confident I can consistently do LC Easys now.