Tech interviews remind me of employers saying to forget everything you’ve learned, kiddo. Heh, we do REAL work here! If you want to work for us you better be a

Tech interviews remind me of employers saying to forget everything you’ve learned, kiddo. Heh, we do REAL work here! If you want to work for us you better be able to complete this leetcode question! You’re not a real engineer if you can’t! Then the real work is an awfully designed mostly front end disaster. Nobody knows how anything works. But they passed the interview somehow. I don’t get the people who do leetcode for fun or who get hyped up about it as an interview process. I guess they made it in life by cramming for tests just to forget it all immediately after. Wasting time memorizing tedious things that have no value is especially awful and draining for me. It’s not fair some people can just do that if they spend a small amount of effort and try. It’s a monumental impossible task for me when I’m otherwise exceptional with software engineering. I’d rather climb a mountain, to put it in perspective. I’d rather actually learn the concepts used on tests and be able to adapt them into my learning, rather than have a history test where I fill in an endless amount of blanks with the exact day, month, and year is somehow relevant or useful for anything. Does anyone actually process those types of questions as actual comprehensible dates instead of memorized strings that are better suited to memorize with a jingle?