DSA and coding rounds might be thing of a past apparently

[Jason Voorhees]

I spend 1 year grinding leetcode btw. @Glorious King also grinded leetcode but now it might be a thing of the past but atleast I can say I am capable of writing it line by line without relying on LLM for bragging rights


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And IBM has made it clear that they will need 3x as many freshers to fill these roles and . Planning to 3x then but they will be evaluated on collaboration, orchestration, system design expertise etc instead of just DSA grinding and coding rounds. Iirc Meta is also planning on changing their evaluation metrics soon. Interesting times we live in.

IBM plans 3x increase in entry-level recruitment despite AI automation

IBM will triple entry-level hiring in the US in 2026, signalling a bet on early-career talent even as AI threatens to automate junior roles.

www.peoplematters.in

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@jeoyw9192 @User28823 @gooner23

 

[Glorious King]

I spend 1 year grinding leetcode btw. @Glorious King also grinded leetcode but now it might be a thing of the past but atleast I can say I am capable of writing it line by line without relying on LLM for bragging rights


Hackerank recently made this tweet


And IBM also made it clear that they do need a lot more freshers. Planning to 3x then but they will be evaluated on collaboration, fit, system design expertise. Iirc Meta is also planning on changing their evaluation metrics soon. Interesting times we live in.

IBM plans 3x increase in entry-level recruitment despite AI automation

IBM will triple entry-level hiring in the US in 2026, signalling a bet on early-career talent even as AI threatens to automate junior roles.

www.peoplematters.in

very true

in my last 3 interviews none of them asked me any DSA related questions

it was just take home assignments, system design

or applying aiml concepts to their usecase


it's safe to say that companies are giving more importance towards practical implementation rather than leetcode slop

 

[Jason Voorhees]

very true

in my last 3 interviews none of them asked me any DSA related questions

it was just take home assignments, system design

or applying aiml concepts to their usecase


it's safe to say that startups are giving more importance towards practical implementation rather than leetcode slop

Interesting. Mine was converted PPO and did have a DSA round but it was nothing more than an initial filter. They gave a lot more weightage to my projects, my work. All the technical interviews that were face to face kept probing me about the fundamentals than anything. I guess we have moved on from solve 2 mediums and 1 hard in 45 minutes and you have a job offer era.

 

[i cant lie cant lie]

vibecode is law

 

[Ergogenic]

I spend 1 year grinding leetcode btw. @Glorious King also grinded leetcode but now it might be a thing of the past but atleast I can say I am capable of writing it line by line without relying on LLM for bragging rights


Hackerank recently made this tweet


And IBM has made it clear that they will need 3x as many freshers to fill these roles and . Planning to 3x then but they will be evaluated on collaboration, orchestration, system design expertise etc instead of just DSA grinding and coding rounds. Iirc Meta is also planning on changing their evaluation metrics soon. Interesting times we live in.

IBM plans 3x increase in entry-level recruitment despite AI automation

IBM will triple entry-level hiring in the US in 2026, signalling a bet on early-career talent even as AI threatens to automate junior roles.

www.peoplematters.in

I do not understand any of this, but I do appreciate your nerdiness.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@imontheloose @Heretic @BigBallsLarry @topology @Menas

 

[Jason Voorhees]

I do not understand any of this, but I do appreciate your nerdiness.

The tech landscape is changing rapidly that's all you need to know. There's no point fighting AI.

 

[ngannou]

mathematical thinking is still important.

AI still can't solve very unusual uncategorized questions

 

[ngannou]

very true

in my last 3 interviews none of them asked me any DSA related questions

it was just take home assignments, system design

or applying aiml concepts to their usecase


it's safe to say that companies are giving more importance towards practical implementation rather than leetcode slop

tech companies should probably give uncategorized/ad-hoc type questions

which requires your own mathematical thinking and idea

instead of very well-known data types or algorithms

 

[Glorious King]

Interesting. Mine was converted PPO and did have a DSA round but it was nothing more than an initial filter. They gave a lot more weightage to my projects, my work. All the technical interviews that were face to face kept probing me about the fundamentals than anything. I guess we have moved on from solve 2 mediums and 1 hard in 45 minutes and you have a job offer era.

i mean AMD is literally up there with faang brah so it's expected to have atleast 1-2 dsa problems

but the key thing that a lot of these comps have realized that GEN-Z is expert at memorizing stuff but fail at practical implementation

like legit NEETCODE'S list and gpt led to the downfall of this

but on hindsight it's good since a lot of niggas cant host a site let alone build something that's production worthy

hence it's a win win for us

 

[Jason Voorhees]

tech companies should probably give uncategorized/ad-hoc type questions

which requires your own mathematical thinking and idea

instead of very well-known data types or algorithms

A large chunk of interview DSA is just advanced pattern recognition. sliding window, two pointers DP states most of it is stuff you've seen before but twisted around .

 

[Sprinkles]

I spend 1 year grinding leetcode btw. @Glorious King also grinded leetcode but now it might be a thing of the past but atleast I can say I am capable of writing it line by line without relying on LLM for bragging rights


Hackerank recently made this tweet


And IBM has made it clear that they will need 3x as many freshers to fill these roles and . Planning to 3x then but they will be evaluated on collaboration, orchestration, system design expertise etc instead of just DSA grinding and coding rounds. Iirc Meta is also planning on changing their evaluation metrics soon. Interesting times we live in.

IBM plans 3x increase in entry-level recruitment despite AI automation

IBM will triple entry-level hiring in the US in 2026, signalling a bet on early-career talent even as AI threatens to automate junior roles.

www.peoplematters.in

$1B tech startup pill is so brutal

 

[Glorious King]

tech companies should probably give uncategorized/ad-hoc type questions

which requires your own mathematical thinking and idea

instead of very well-known data types or algorithms

GOTTA BE REALISTIC HERE BUD

IF IT'S WAYY TOO ADVANCED THEN THEY WOULD EXPECT THE SENIOR ENGINEERS TO DO THAT ASWELL

BUT SOME OF THEM ARE COMPLETE BUMS USING THE GOOD OL JS AND SHIT

BUT GOTTA FIND A GOOD BALANCE TO TEST EM

 

[ngannou]

A large chunk of interview DSA is just advanced pattern recognition. sliding window, two pointers DP states most of it is stuff you've seen before but twisted around .

that is the reason why they need to change interview with Ad hoc algorithms

really one time only solutions that can't be categorized.

Only true mathematical thinkers will be elected

 

[ngannou]

GOTTA BE REALISTIC HERE BUD

IF IT'S WAYY TOO ADVANCED THEN THEY WOULD EXPECT THE SENIOR ENGINEERS TO DO THAT ASWELL

BUT SOME OF THEM ARE COMPLETE BUMS USING THE GOOD OL JS AND SHIT

BUT GOTTA FIND A GOOD BALANCE TO TEST EM

that is why bigtechs are mass firing the bums nowadays

 

[Glorious King]

that is why bigtechs are mass firing the bums nowadays

TOUCHE

 

[jeoyw9192]

i mean AMD is literally up there with faang brah so it's expected to have atleast 1-2 dsa problems

but the key thing that a lot of these comps have realized that GEN-Z is expert at memorizing stuff but fail at practical implementation

like legit NEETCODE'S list and gpt led to the downfall of this

but on hindsight it's good since a lot of niggas cant host a site let alone build something that's production worthy

hence it's a win win for us

Haha still big ups to Neetcode tho smart mfer (Blind 75 )

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Haha still big ups to Neetcode tho smart mfer (Blind 75 )

I really liked Neetcode tbh. I did all my Leetcode prep through the strivers DSA sheet. Neetcode is better tho. Every question has a video explanation and includes a lot of leetcode premium questions too

 

[Glorious King]

Haha still big ups to Neetcode tho smart mfer (Blind 75 )

yea blud solo'd my cs degree

 

[jeoyw9192]

I really liked Neetcode tbh. I did all my Leetcode prep through the strivers DSA sheet. Neetcode is better tho. Every question has a video explanation and includes a lot of leetcode pro questions too

Yeah his explanations are very solid and thorough, easy to follow. I think Meta also specifically has a question bank to prepare for their select initial rounds, never looked into it that much though

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Yeah his explanations are very solid and thorough, easy to follow. I think Meta also specifically has a question bank to prepare for their select initial rounds, never looked into it that much though

Yeah his explanations are very solid and thorough, easy to follow. I think Meta also specifically has a question bank to prepare for their select initial rounds, never looked into it that much though

Iirc Meta added an Al-enabled coding round in some loops recently it's like extending a small system with multiple phases with code review, add features, edge cases etc But the classic 2x medium coding rounds are still the core.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@jeoyw9192

 

[User28823]

"Developers are orchestrating AI, debugging its output, catching when it goes wrong"

so basically data annotation which they only pay me $40-50/hr to its not even worth my time

 

[gooner23]

3x more entry level hiring? they will drain your life source instead of using gpus and ram