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id: coding-signals
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title: Coding Signals
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The point of interviews is for interviewers to extract signals from certain candidate behaviors. In coding interviews, the signals can be broadly classified into the following categories: Problem Solving, Technical Competency, Testing, and Communication.
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When interviewers take down interview feedback, these are likely what is on their feedback sheet.
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## Problem solving
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#### Understanding the problem
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- 👍 Understood the key aspects of the problem quickly
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- 👎 Had difficulty in understanding the key aspects of the problem
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#### Solution/approach
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- 👍 Approached the problem in a systematic and logical manner
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- 👎 Did not demonstrate a logical thought process for approaching the problem
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#### Improving the solution
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- 👍 Suggested a more efficient solution when prompted, or proactively coming up with a better solution
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- 👎 Had difficulty in coming up with a more efficient solution even after being prompted
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#### Trade-offs analysis
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- 👍 Explained the trade-offs of different approaches clearly and correctly
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- 👎 Failed to describe trade-offs of different approaches
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#### Hinting
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- 👍 Did not require any major hints
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- 👎 Needed plenty of hints
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## Technical competency
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#### Speed
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- 👍 Quickly implemented a working solution
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- 👎 Was not able to complete the solution
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#### Correctness/Accuracy
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- 👍 Implemented the solution correctly (e.g., working solution, minimal bugs)
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- 👎 Unable to correctly implement a solution (e.g., non-working solution, incorrect logic, and/or serious bugs)
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#### Complexity analysis
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- 👍 Able to determine the algorithmic time and space complexity
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- 👎 Was not able to determine the algorithmic time and space complexity (explain why TC came up with such an answer)
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#### Mastery of chosen programming language
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- 👍 Demonstrated mastery of the chosen programming language
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- 👎 Does not seem to be familiar with the chosen programming language
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#### Implementation
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- 👍 Implementation was clean and straightforward
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- 👎 Implementation was unnecessarily complex and/or messy
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#### Coding style
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- 👍 Coding style was neat (proper indentation, spacing and no bad practices)
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- 👎 Coding style was messy (inconsistent indentation, weird spacings, etc)
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## Testing
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#### Common cases
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- 👍 Tested their code against various typical cases
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- 👎 Failed to test the code against typical cases
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#### Corner cases
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- 👍 Found and handled corner/edge cases
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- 👎 Failed to consider corner/edge cases
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#### Self-correction
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- 👍 Identified and corrected bugs in the code (where applicable)
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- 👎 Was not able to discover and fix bugs even after being prompted
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## Communication
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#### Clarify problem
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- 👍 Appropriately asked good, clarifying questions about the problem
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- 👎 Failed to confirm understanding/ask appropriate questions
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#### Communicating approach
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- 👍 Able to explain overall approach, technical terms and acronyms (where applicable)
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- 👎 Failed to effectively explain overall approach, technical terms and acronyms (where applicable)
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#### Explains while coding
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- 👍 Explains what the code is doing while coding, especially for parts which aren't obvious
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- 👎 Keeps silent during coding, or just reading out the code without much
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