Programming Language Tier List - Coding Interviews Edition

FAANG Coding Interviews / Data Structures and Algorithms / Leetcode

[GregHogg]

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[Harikesh]

Python is the most shit for interviews as half things can be done using libraries which is the reason many companies won't allow it.

[borbaspatrik]

The purple Lambda logo is Haskell, it's a great purely functional programming language, used by quite a lot of companies, I would assume if someone has FAANG level experience, they would at least heard about it.

[alfarisw]

Pretty sure thats PowerShell not VSCode

[tooMuchChad]

That lambda symbol is Haskell!! You gotta learn that man, it's a whole new world. A whole new perfect point of view. All the languages you know are as similar to each other as java is to C sharp compared to haskel

[ph]

If you know the alg, any language should suffice. But at interviews most likely you are faced with a problem you dont know the specific alg. I am new to leetcode, but given a choice, I would choose python. If you dont know the exact alg, its important to show at least a brut force or some kind of solution.

For example, I tried to figure out an alg and came up with a func that converts string to int. Well, Java test cases failed, cause Long wasnt big enough, while python's int() did the job perfectly. Yes, its probably the worst alg (although time was ok), but at least it works in python. And also dealing with lists straight away with built-in insert, append, etc. is much more convenient, than arrays

But google says that some companies might be more hesitant about candidates who used Python. So 50/50

[jamesgrove]

R is really nice for smaller statistics problems, it is very convenient going from theory to code with it

[Zarelga]

LaTeX is a markup language mainly used for displaying equations etc in text docs.

Also, I'd argue C++ is closer to Java than C# is.

[sabafaisal]

Ain't no way R is in trash list 😭

If your field is data science, statistics and machine learning then R questions will DEFINITELY be in the interview. It is literally built for handling statistical analysis and data science.

[szyna]

I dont get why some many people talk shit on R

[cyberflaw_]

Pick a language that have a really good and versatile standard library and you can't go wrong

[baelhadjhadjaissa]

I skip the video when someone equalise c# with java

[debanganroy]

That's from ur perspective. Though python is a very efficient language and I like to use it more than any language. But I think for interview, C++ and Java will be better if its not focused on language perspective. Reason: Python is a bit slow language in respect to these two.

[alvarosanchezp]

C for coding interviews? You know C doesn't have dynamic arrays or hash tables in its standard library? I enjoy writing those data structures myself, but I am 3x faster with Python/JS

[Someguy-]

"Assembly is garbage"
Bro computer firmwares and OSes are written in Assembly

[mirrakibulislam]

I am no expert but I believe C/C++ should be ranked first.

[rohankumarpanigrahi]

Java goes below c from prpgramming intervoews you have got to be kidding me

[ahni]

*_The real_** tier list is:*
The language the job mainly consists of: *_S tier_*
Literally _everything else:_ F.

If you apply to be a _C++ developer_ and you submit your answer in *Python, * you're most assuredly *_not_* getting that job.

[nifegun]

LMFAO letting someone do their coding interview is like seeing if someone can ride a bike with training wheels on

[ball]

Bro my entire lab use R, whey are cooked 😭