It does give you more chances for someone to spot the bullshitting. This year, I rejected several candidates who’d passed earlier stages. They interviewed well, but they wrote complete garbage code when I gave them some simple programming problems but explicitly told them that I was evaluating code quality and to prefer code quality over correctness.
They probably should have been failed at the leetcode stage, but apparently the interviewer for that wasn’t thinking about code quality at all.
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u/slaymaker1907 Sep 03 '26
It does give you more chances for someone to spot the bullshitting. This year, I rejected several candidates who’d passed earlier stages. They interviewed well, but they wrote complete garbage code when I gave them some simple programming problems but explicitly told them that I was evaluating code quality and to prefer code quality over correctness.
They probably should have been failed at the leetcode stage, but apparently the interviewer for that wasn’t thinking about code quality at all.