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leetcode difficulty is vastly exaggerated. people study 4 whole years of their lives in college to increase their chances of making money, why not spend around
by ir123 5y ago
leetcode difficulty is vastly exaggerated. people study 4 whole years of their lives in college to increase their chances of making money, why not spend around 5 months on leetcode which can perhaps get you much farther than anything from college?
i'm not particularly smart, in fact i struggle at work routinely, but i know what i have to do clear interviews, so i do the grind and it has worked well for me. (to a certain definition of "well")
now that i think of it, it has only worked well for me because actual talented swe's don't put effort into interviews the way people like me do.
- prionassembly 5y agoPeople who are good at the grind are good at the grind. These are also often the people who succeed in life; intelligence is vastly overrated.
- bredren 5y agoI suspect some people want to make time but have family or other obligations. Adding new project that must be executed on as a prerequisite to being seriously considered for a job when you are obviously capable can be a hard sell. Especially given programming challenges are not that fun for people used to delivering features. I know that for talented SWEs, having a leetcode interview sink an interview process it can be invalidating. Companies that rely on single algo/ds interviews also discourage potentially great employees when they totally ignore evidence of capability. The company wants candidates to grind ds/algos, but it won't compel its own employees to look at public contributions.