A framework for grading your performance on programming interview problems
 I do find it a little ironic that as an industry we started doing these interviews as a &quot;least common denominator&quot; - from senior engineers to fresh college grads, everyone occasionally needs to do a search or a sort or a lookup table, and people should recognize when &quot;loop in a loop&quot; n^2 solutions aren&#x27;t ideal.<p>And we tuned it from there to into its own sort of mini-SAT with an accompanying preparatory industry and culture.<p>I find it as a reminder of my fungibility as an engineer: I get paid absurd sums because of supply and demand, not because of my skills; anybody who can game the leetcode exam (and the architectural diagram quiz and the personality quiz) can walk in and take the same 300k income I have. If enough people do so, wages could be pushed down by employers.<p>Thankfully for my mortgage, that hasn&#x27;t happened yet and probably won&#x27;t happen soon.