Hacker News likes to complain about interviewing, and, well, there is a lot to complain about. One of the recent links on the matter was from Kislay Verma “Competitive programming is useless”. Kislay decries an over-emphasis on competitive coding questions informing interview performance — i.e., asking increasingly obscure and trivial algorithmic and data structures questions rather than focusing on fundamentals and questions to engage and measure the breadth of the candidate’s experi...
