throwaway_a0f1's comments

Apparently this is a common question.

Here's some discussion on it https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/348510/Googl...

Thanks for feedback about convention and variable naming- you're totally correct I should work on both.

As far as 0 input, they actually told me it would always be valid so edge cases were not accounted for.

Done, really appreciated

I mean that's a fair take, and one I've tried really hard to examine, but I feel as though the questions have a very obvious answer and you either get it or don't. And to reply to that, no one actually gives feedback so you'll never actually know.

Looking at your profile, you seem well suited to be able to evaluate this, so let me give an example from an interview I just had.

Here's a problem and solution from the last interview I had: https://pastebin.com/LyVYqLv4

I genuinely don't understand what this industry is looking for in an interview process.

Some background, about 2 years ago I started teaching myself to program full time. About a year ago, I felt confident that I knew enough to get a job, taught myself all of this leetcode stuff, and started applying.

People told me that if I could crush leetcode, I'd have no problem getting a job. What they didn't say was how impossible it was to get an interview when transitioning fields.

I was also told that people would look at my GitHub code, but considering recruiters spend about 15 seconds on a resume screen, this is more of a meme than reality.

In the last year in Bay Area, I've managed a total of 2 on-sites with well over a hundred applications, all of them quite targeted. Maybe 8 companies total have engaged with me, and I have not missed a single one of these types of questions at any point in the process, yet it hasn't been enough.

It seems that there are so few entry level jobs that that market is extremely saturated. I'm not sure how this industry expects to address it's serious man power shortage if no one wants to hire juniors.