> “What would be your advice be to fresh college graduates, or anybody for that matter, who are good at programming but not at leetcode?” Go for jobs or compan

> “What would be your advice be to fresh college graduates, or anybody for that matter, who are good at programming but not at leetcode?” Go for jobs or companies that are not popular and are struggling to find talent. Try to get the highest paying one of those (my subjective experience is that your colleagues will be more professional). A job is what you make of it. If you take a role at a company that puts you through a tough leetcode test you may find yourself editing config files all day because you are surrounded by superstars and there is only so much interesting work to go around. My first job was at a startup that couldn’t attract the talent that the bigger Corps could. They paid more than the big Corps and I’m pretty sure I learnt a lot more than if I hadn’t taken the risk. Another approach is to use Meetup events in your chosen tech field to shortcut the hiring process. You chat with someone who works somewhere, they speak to their manager and get you an interview. People that know each other personally are unlikely to put the other person through a leetcode test. It helps to have one or two projects on GitHub that someone can browse through to make sure you are legit. They don’t have to be popular or useful. Just some code that is not terrible.