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I would like to add something I couldn't fit into the original post. A big part of why I think I got stuck trying so hard is because of the anecdotes programmer

I would like to add something I couldn't fit into the original post. A big part of why I think I got stuck trying so hard is because of the anecdotes programmers like to throw around. They'll tell a story about one guy they knew or a time in their life when they struggled. They do not take a quantifiable approach this. IQ is not talked about. The amount of time studying is not talked about. Whether they have won competitions in any intellectual field is not talked about. How quickly they are able to understand concepts and implement them of increasing complexity is not talked about. If it was did, I think people would be much more able to realize when someone is truly not talented and should quit and when someone still under the normal curve of struggling and it may pay off to persist.

bradlys 6y ago
Regardless of all that, there’s a lot of luck involved. I’ve soared through technical rounds because I got lucky with interviewers who asked me questions I could solve in the time given. In many others, I received questions I was likely never going to solve because I had never seen them and it was required in order to pass from this interviewers mind. People spend a lot of time on LC. It should be obvious from all those self-promotional LC posts. (Don’t trust everything on there btw - those stories are there to sell the platform and keep people paying.) IQ is mostly irrelevant. You should really only be worried about IQ when someone is a true outlier. (Savant or handicapped) Either way, you’re acting defeatist if you think that not getting into FAANG the first few times is proof that you’re garbage or something. Many people get rejected and get rejected after they’ve gotten an offer from them before. It’s not a good system. Also, how do you not have every problem solved if you’ve truly been working at it for 5 years? 1 problem a day would have you solve every single one.

bradlys 6y ago

Regardless of all that, there’s a lot of luck involved. I’ve soared through technical rounds because I got lucky with interviewers who asked me questions I could solve in the time given. In many others, I received questions I was likely never going to solve because I had never seen them and it was required in order to pass from this interviewers mind. People spend a lot of time on LC. It should be obvious from all those self-promotional LC posts. (Don’t trust everything on there btw - those stories are there to sell the platform and keep people paying.) IQ is mostly irrelevant. You should really only be worried about IQ when someone is a true outlier. (Savant or handicapped) Either way, you’re acting defeatist if you think that not getting into FAANG the first few times is proof that you’re garbage or something. Many people get rejected and get rejected after they’ve gotten an offer from them before. It’s not a good system. Also, how do you not have every problem solved if you’ve truly been working at it for 5 years? 1 problem a day would have you solve every single one.