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I think an ever bigger evil is companies who do not calibrate their Leetcode type tests to their hiring needs. I was given a take-home test few years ago by a well-to do medical software company based out of Verona, WI. Their programming test had a question from past ICPC.

Typically Olympiad questions takes well-to-do teamwork & few hours of brainstorming - not a 30min timed test you give with a proctor watching your monitor



> a well-to do medical software company based out of Verona, WI

You might as well just say Epic Systems LOL


Epic doesn't expect that you will finish every question on the exam. That's actually the point of giving harder questions: the ability to calibrate against the entire candidate pool. If the test is so easy everyone aces it, how is that calibration going to go?


In a 50 min test with 10 min MCQs and two timed questions, where one question is a ICPC derivative question & the other one is refactor a pseudocode similar to MUMPS language, what CS talent is it exactly testing?

I don't mind writing MUMPS if I was hired, but the test is not my ability of understanding MUMPS-styled syntax or predicting the win percentage in some chess layouts without using MCTS.




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