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Right but you sound very talented, just need one of you to watch the code of ten junior engineers. Youre ability to achieve L7 with only 7 years of experience p

Right but you sound very talented, just need one of you to watch the code of ten junior engineers. Youre ability to achieve L7 with only 7 years of experience proves my point almost exactly. Your yoe didnt matter that much. You didnt need fifteen years to start accumulating real knowledge. Regardless of the leaps and bounds you are making, the corporate world doesnt see it that way, and the reliance on leetcode for interviews proves this.

benreesman 4y ago
I don't know about "very talented": I take my job/craft seriously and as a result I'm good at it, but I've been programming in one form or another for 30 years, I got a hand-me-down original IBM PC when I was eight, and a hand-me-down 386 / copy of K&R a few years later. I still haven't decided if the ubiquity of access to a JS programming environment (good thing) outweighs high barriers to entry of figuring out how to write native code on e.g. a kid's iPhone (bad thing). I think it remains to be seen where the corporate world lands on all of this. It's still fairly early days on 22-year-olds being able to raise VC and hire a bunch of other 22-year-olds to go "disrupt" some market. The results so far are mixed. Too soon to tell. As for leetcode interviews: no one likes them, as I've said elsewhere I didn't like being interviewed that way and didn't like interviewing others that way (I could go a little off script to try to dial down the false negatives a bit, but there were in general pretty clear non-discretionary standards). But every high-prestige admissions system has some standardized or semi-standardized test. For undergratuate in the US that's SAT. LSAT/MCAT/GMAT you name it. Companies don't want to be using extremely unpopular tests with lousy recall. Interviewers don't like it, interviewees hate it, and it has all kinds of structural biases against people who didn't just finish a CMU undergraduate. I personally might flunk a leetcode interview at a company I contributed absurd amounts of good code to. But no one has thought of something better yet. It's a real opportunity.

benreesman 4y ago

I don't know about "very talented": I take my job/craft seriously and as a result I'm good at it, but I've been programming in one form or another for 30 years, I got a hand-me-down original IBM PC when I was eight, and a hand-me-down 386 / copy of K&R a few years later. I still haven't decided if the ubiquity of access to a JS programming environment (good thing) outweighs high barriers to entry of figuring out how to write native code on e.g. a kid's iPhone (bad thing). I think it remains to be seen where the corporate world lands on all of this. It's still fairly early days on 22-year-olds being able to raise VC and hire a bunch of other 22-year-olds to go "disrupt" some market. The results so far are mixed. Too soon to tell. As for leetcode interviews: no one likes them, as I've said elsewhere I didn't like being interviewed that way and didn't like interviewing others that way (I could go a little off script to try to dial down the false negatives a bit, but there were in general pretty clear non-discretionary standards). But every high-prestige admissions system has some standardized or semi-standardized test. For undergratuate in the US that's SAT. LSAT/MCAT/GMAT you name it. Companies don't want to be using extremely unpopular tests with lousy recall. Interviewers don't like it, interviewees hate it, and it has all kinds of structural biases against people who didn't just finish a CMU undergraduate. I personally might flunk a leetcode interview at a company I contributed absurd amounts of good code to. But no one has thought of something better yet. It's a real opportunity.