Ask HN: Opinions on Codechef/interviewstreet/codeeval/etc?

by seagaia on 10/30/2011, 11:15 PM with 1 comments

Hi, so I recently joined some of these websites and tried out some of the questions. At the moment I think that solving these things while reading through an algorithms text (I'm using CLR atm) may be helpful for...well, algorithm knowledge in general.

Some questions:

-How true is the aforementioned statement?

-What do you think about how sometimes these problems act as things for recruiters to look at?

-Any other thoughts?

I feel like these questions are not "practical" questions but getting an okay implementation is maybe a passive skill useful for coding in general.

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  • by rvivek on 10/31/2011, 11:38 AM

    Hi Seagaia, the programming challenges given are a good way to judge whether the candidate can code or not (for a large percentage of companies) for an initial filter. That said, we're launching real-world programming challenges which would help cater to a much wider audience, something like this -> http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/fjgit/reddit_is_doubli...