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The smaller the team, the higher the stakes. The right hires create leverage that helps everyone ship faster; bad hires drag productivity down for everyone.
The Tech Test — a practical assessment of your coding skills — is the beating heart of the software engineering interview loop. From the other side of the keyboard, it isn’t as stressful, but it’s tough to make a binary decision based on imperfect information — a brief look at your coding skills.
With dozens (or hundreds) of candidates in play, it’s understandable why most tech companies fall back on LeetCode to enforce a lowest common denominator of technical skills.
For interviewers, it needs to effectively test for skills needed for the role, and allow us to appropriately level candidates.
