3 ms·

I've had similar experiences to yours, but maybe this doesn't fit the leetcode people are complaining about. We hire with a similar setup, but we try to keep t

I've had similar experiences to yours, but maybe this doesn't fit the leetcode people are complaining about. We hire with a similar setup, but we try to keep the test extremely simple and close to reality. Something they would likely encounter on their day-to-day. The majority of the developers fail at it. Senior, mid-level, juniors, etc. It doesn't matter. Which always surprises me. People who claim to have 5-6 years of experience can't even refactor some code. Or they can refactor and can't explain why they'd do it. It's bizarre. But I would never classify this as leetcode because these are common tasks that any developer should be able to solve and not purely algorithmic questions that will rarely (if ever) be used in real life.

avgDev 5y ago
If you have 0 passion for programming and land a gig at a corp that doesn't care about code quality at all, you could do that job for few years and just coast/do bare minimum. I'm an IC and I could deliver software with all methods in a single class, nobody would care I think, as long as it worked as intended. I happen to like programming and as I am improving my skills every time I touch an existing project I look for things I could have done better. If major changes are being made, I often upgrade frameworks or do a partial rewrite to improve things. I know people who just do stuff without trying to understand why. If I cannot explain why I am using dependency injection and what problem it solves, I am not doing it correctly.