> why do startups do leetcode too? A point that I didn't see yet made. The truth is that lots (though of course not all) startup companies just have no idea wh

> why do startups do leetcode too? A point that I didn't see yet made. The truth is that lots (though of course not all) startup companies just have no idea what they are doing. I had to deal with the complexities that imagined possible future scalability issues introduced into our stack when the whole customer base could be served by a raspberry pi, and it happened in multiple companies. And it is not just infrastructure, but also code. I have to follow the twisted clean architecture rules and write tons of boilerplate code (that could make sense on the backend for a complex system) for a mobile app that is basically just a skin over a graphql API (basically no business logic on the client). The same happens when hiring: we need top talent like FAANG companies do (but we can't pay for it), because we are awesome, where in reality anyone with a sceptical, product-focused mindset and a "get things done" attitude would do. In my opinion this happens because we don't want to admit that our startups will likely not need the scalability for years, we won't need to follow fancy architecture patterns because our app is simple, and we could do well with developers who don't have top computer science skills.