I think a lot of the common memes around programmers like these is due to the wrong-think gatekeeping during the interview process that everybody is copying fro

I think a lot of the common memes around programmers like these is due to the wrong-think gatekeeping during the interview process that everybody is copying from FAANG. I have 5-10 years programming experience and find an unlimited amount of bugs in other developer's work of any and all skill levels. On occasion, something like a billing calculation will have a function doing the opposite of what they intend to do but somehow nobody has caught it in 5 years. I've also seen ancient security reports that just have a chunk of code that doesn't work like it sounds it should, causing 25% of results to be missed. These are just a couple of actual examples. I focus on generally not screwing up my work like that as well as finding these problems in my team's code. It's mind blowing to me this has absolutely 0 value though. I and others like me are gatekept out of a lot of work since we process things differently. Developers can't seem to imagine a world where somebody thinks differently than them and memorizing leetcode is just as easy for everybody as it is them. "If you can't talk me through what you're doing while writing your memorized perfectly compilable code on a whiteboard or google doc, I guess you're either just lazy and not really invested, or a bad developer. Probably both." The only thing that technically matters to get into the dev roles is memorizing leetcode problems in order to pass the interview so that A) You have a job at all (even small companies are doing these now)and B) You can get your actual salary corrected every couple years. If it's not memorizing leetcode, it's how many (inefficient) lines of code did you contribute? (Thankfully this is finally starting to be phased out as a measurement AND bragging point.) The people who make it through all this then go on to store their critical world-infrastructure Exchange version number in a 32 bit integer because "It worked and compiled when I tested it, so it's probably good enough." Nobody dares test it due to the toxic hostility back, or because a senior dev wrote it, or "I ran the code and it compiled for me, so it's good." There's just so much talking down to others and gatekeeping about how leetcode solvers are superior and that it's the only possible starting block for a "real dev". I can't believe the frequency of simple yet major mistakes these people go on to actually do after they spend so much time bragging about it.