{"id":8594,"date":"2025-11-24T07:03:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T07:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/24\/are_leetcode_heavy_interviews_becoming_the_norm\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T07:03:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T07:03:26","slug":"are_leetcode_heavy_interviews_becoming_the_norm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/24\/are_leetcode_heavy_interviews_becoming_the_norm\/","title":{"rendered":"Are LeetCode heavy Interviews becoming the norm for DS Modeling roles?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Are LeetCode heavy Interviews becoming the norm for DS Modeling roles?<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>I\u2019ve been actively searching for DS Modeling roles again, and wow the landscape has changed a lot since the last time I was on the market. It seems like leetcode style interviews have become way more common. I\u2019ve already failed or barely passed several rounds that focused heavily on DSA questions.<\/p>\n<p>At this point it feels like there\u2019s no getting around it. Whenever a recruiter mentions a Python (not pandas) interview, my motivation instantly tanks. I want to get over this mental block, though, and actually prepare properly.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who\u2019ve interviewed recently, what\u2019s the best way to approach this? And have you also noticed an increase in companies using leetcode style questions for DS roles?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Fig_Towel_379\"> \/u\/Fig_Towel_379 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datascience\/comments\/1p4v7hg\/are_leetcode_heavy_interviews_becoming_the_norm\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datascience\/comments\/1p4v7hg\/are_leetcode_heavy_interviews_becoming_the_norm\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    \/u\/Fig_Towel_379<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datascience\/comments\/1p4v7hg\/are_leetcode_heavy_interviews_becoming_the_norm\/\">Go to original source<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are LeetCode heavy Interviews becoming the norm for DS Modeling roles? I\u2019ve been actively searching for DS Modeling roles again, and wow the landscape has changed a lot since the last time I was on the market. It seems like leetcode style interviews have become way more common. I\u2019ve already failed or barely passed several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,99],"tags":[1011,4275,2513],"class_list":["post-8594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aimldsaimlds","category-datascience","tag-ds","tag-leetcode","tag-roles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}