Hiring without DSA ?

Any company hiring without a DSA interview? Maybe a take home assignment or something like that? I do know some DSA from college time but am out of practice and have been working as a full stack dev for 3 years.

Different companies follow different methods to choose their workforce, so if you've given/taken couple of interviews yourself can you provide insight on how you do it and why you think it works? Also what would you change about the general process of tech hiring? Let me go first. 0. (obvious, but) Minimal weightage for DSA - When I conduct interviews, I rarely ask DSA problems. It rarely gives me an opportunity to assess the candidate's breadth of knowledge, and come to a conclusion of how much experience they have with the tasks that they're going to do on the job. What if they've practiced the same problem / variation of the problem that I ask? I want to assess technical competence, not their acting skills. 1. (debatable) Culture fit should be given a higher weightage than skills - Skills can be learnt, behavior and character takes time to build. It most often hinders the progress of the team. 2. Stop setting standards for the interview that your team doesn't follow in the first place - I've had friends who had to pass interviews of high standards only to work in shitty teams. They were yearning for an achha din but it never came. Your thoughts? Nothing's wrong here, please be open to discussion.

Wondering how much does not knowing DSA and lack of practice of LC hurt your chances of getting hired ? For context I am an sde with 1 yoe from tier 1 college been out of touch with dsa for over 1.5 yrs and I am planning on making my first job switch, I believe I know my job very well and am good at what I do better than most of the people around me but just out of touch with dsa.

I've been interviewing for few months and every company requires leet code style questions. My DSA skills are rusty as I haven't continued preparation along side my job for last 2.5 years.

I am software engineer with 2 years of experience. I am not from NIT IIT no MBA no Mtech. I have seen a culture where talent guy from lower college background get paid less than the industry standard. I have no money to go for higher studies can’t take the risk that can hang my live to nowhere. So Is there any way to earn more without being from IIT NIT Mtech MBA?

I am a 2YOE software engineer, and I wanted to make a switch. Having a grip on DSA but can't rely on it. I am seeing a good number of folks getting into start ups get paid well too. Can someone comment on startups that are paying well but require less grinding. Open for comments and views. Thanks

How did you get it? :P

Can you list down the companies you have interviewed at for Data Scientist/ML roles and tell us whether DSA was asked? I'll start: Paypal, Visa, Truecaller, Navi - No DSA (had multiple rounds) Paytm, Coinbase - No DSA(Rejected after one round) Walmart- Asked DSA, but it didn't carry much weight Zeta, Microsoft - Asked DSA