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I agree, I think we need to get away from proof of skill things like leetcode. In its best light, its discriminatory. How is someone with a life, such as chil
by autokad 6y ago
I agree, I think we need to get away from proof of skill things like leetcode.
In its best light, its discriminatory. How is someone with a life, such as children or other things going on, supposed to take huge amounts of time away from their personal life to practice skills that are unrelated to the thing they actually want to do?
one of my biggest regrets when doing my masters degree was spending my extra time learning things a data scientist would do. Like learning how to go through huge amounts of data, pull NFL data to see which yard lines on the field have the most injuries (1 and 2 yard line because of % of runs), learning NLP techniques like LDA, etc. Only none of this mattered, the guardian at the gate was asking me how to build and balance binary trees, etc.
The fact that I regret spending my time learning how to do the things the job requires is a travesty of the system. It exposes how asinine the whole system is.
- decafninja 6y agoI feel the same way. There are so many things I want to learn and do - both technical and non technical. Including many things that will make me a better engineer for employers current and future. But all of that is put on hold so that I can grind leetcode on my way into a better job first. Because nothing else matters.
- vsareto 6y agoI want proof of skill, but I want it to mean I rarely have to prove my skill again (or at least only at years-long intervals like 5-10 year refreshers). Everyone's afraid of that rogue false-positive developer though.