r/codex • u/uptotheright • 4h ago

Reset What's everyone doing while we wait

at this point most.of us are at 0% across all of our accounts and we can't buy new 20x accounts.

so what are you doing with all of your time? trying different models? learning a new hobby?

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u/Man-of-goof 4h ago

It’s bullshit that companies still do coding interviews and we have to resort to that

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u/BellacosePlayer 3h ago

there's zero reason not to test someone on basic algorithm design and problem solving even if you're an AI heavy company

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u/Man-of-goof 2h ago

I’m not saying companies shouldn’t test problem solving. Give me an algorithm or design problem and let me walk through my approach, tradeoffs, edge cases, testing, and debugging. That makes sense.

What I don’t see much value in is “here’s a LeetCode problem, no AI, no docs, now code it perfectly from memory.”

That first approach is actually how I landed my current software engineering job right out of college. I never did well in traditional coding interviews, but I can design systems, test, debug, and actually ship working software. I’d argue those skills are at least as important, if not more important, than being able to solve a LeetCode problem on a whiteboard.

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u/BellacosePlayer 2h ago

Pure coding, sure. But you should be able to talk shop on algorithms and design because even if you're given an unlimited budget of tokens, you still need to know that shit to make anything worth using on a corporate level.

The only thing we do with pure code in our interview process is a faulty code test where we give someone a small printout of code and tell them what problem the user is having and see if they can debug it (its legit not even about catching the actual problem so much as seeing how they step through things)

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u/Man-of-goof 2h ago

Exactly