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For me, leetcoding people is basically asshole behavior, on the part of the company. The whole idea of "let's have a tournment where we have candidates grind on
by burntoutfire 5y ago
For me, leetcoding people is basically asshole behavior, on the part of the company. The whole idea of "let's have a tournment where we have candidates grind on arbitrary problems for months as a part of preparation, mhwahaha (evil laughter)" sounds like something out of Donald Trump's playbook. No wonder it tends to select for (often, money-driven) assholes who see it as par for the course, while many mature and reasonable people are put off by it and never even bother to apply.
- pm90 5y agoI feel like unless there is an alternative and the labor pool is large enough companies are not incentivized to look at other ways of evaluating engineers. I’m glad that there is a “shortage” of engineers. Likely this isn’t a problem that can be solved anytime soon. The past 2 decades were a brief time when FAANGs could provide a ton of benefits (both financial and non financial, such as eg dev tools) which attracted hordes of people to them. They successfully shaped the industry and now most tech firms are expected to provide great benefits. The number of startups and unicorns is large enough to stem the flood of engineers that they used to get before, and now they will be forced to use different strategies.