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It’s absolutely hilarious you think leetcode would give you the skills to design anything larger than a simple website. I don’t recall leet code ever talking ab

by water8 4y ago

It’s absolutely hilarious you think leetcode would give you the skills to design anything larger than a simple website. I don’t recall leet code ever talking about how to set up an infrastructure that has reliability on an enterprise-level where seconds of downtime means millions of dollars lost. But you’ll be really good at hash maps and quicksort which make for good worker drones, not necessarily good engineers. that requires outside the box thinking, The opposite of the type of memorization leetcode encourages

j245 4y ago
“Absolutely hilarious” that you’re forgetting there is usually a system design round that tests things like “setting up infrastructure on an enterprise-level”. The coding round is supposed to test that.. you can code. For the record I’m also not a fan of the Leet Code style rounds, even though I actually find completing them (outside of an interview) quite fun.
- wiseowise 4y ago
  That’s the usual tactic of LeetCode haters: find a straw man and ignore the big picture.
GuB-42 4y ago
> It’s absolutely hilarious you think leetcode would give you the skills to design anything larger than a simple website. The point of leetcode is not to show what you can do, it is to show what you can't do. To keep up with your analogy, being able to design a simple website doesn't make you able to set-up an enterprise-level infrastructure, but if someone isn't able to design a simple website, I don't want to hire him for my enterprise-level infrastructure. As for "outside the box" thinking, it only works if you know where the box is, otherwise you are just being clueless. And by the way, because it is an argument I see way too often, calling the "sort" function of your favorite library instead of doing the exercise "as intended" is not "outside the box" thinking, it is literally the most obvious thing to do. What could count as "outside the box" would realizing that you can solve the problem more efficiently by not sorting anything at all, which requires you to know your sorting algorithms to show that it is indeed more efficient.
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by water8 4y ago

j245 4y ago

“Absolutely hilarious” that you’re forgetting there is usually a system design round that tests things like “setting up infrastructure on an enterprise-level”. The coding round is supposed to test that.. you can code. For the record I’m also not a fan of the Leet Code style rounds, even though I actually find completing them (outside of an interview) quite fun.

wiseowise 4y ago
That’s the usual tactic of LeetCode haters: find a straw man and ignore the big picture.

GuB-42 4y ago

> It’s absolutely hilarious you think leetcode would give you the skills to design anything larger than a simple website. The point of leetcode is not to show what you can do, it is to show what you can't do. To keep up with your analogy, being able to design a simple website doesn't make you able to set-up an enterprise-level infrastructure, but if someone isn't able to design a simple website, I don't want to hire him for my enterprise-level infrastructure. As for "outside the box" thinking, it only works if you know where the box is, otherwise you are just being clueless. And by the way, because it is an argument I see way too often, calling the "sort" function of your favorite library instead of doing the exercise "as intended" is not "outside the box" thinking, it is literally the most obvious thing to do. What could count as "outside the box" would realizing that you can solve the problem more efficiently by not sorting anything at all, which requires you to know your sorting algorithms to show that it is indeed more efficient.

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