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If someone is just looking to fill a course requirement and has no interest in being a programmer, my response is "meh, whatever". If someone is cheating and a
by chrismarlow9 4y ago
If someone is just looking to fill a course requirement and has no interest in being a programmer, my response is "meh, whatever".
If someone is cheating and actually expects to land a decent CS job, my response is "good luck on the leetcode questions and the 5-7 hours of questions you'll have to answer between the intro call, panels, and an offer".
And if someone magically manages to get all that way without actually learning the material they will get absolutely crushed at work. Meetings where you have to give your professional opinion will induce fits of anxiety. Making changes to your code based on feedback and not having any idea what the feedback means. Even just the amount of work alone that needs to be done at most tech places crushes great engineers. Without the knowledge it will just stack up on you even further.
- oxfordmale 4y agoYou underestimate the human ability to get away with incompetence. Unfortunately many of those cheaters manage to get in roles where they can hide their inadequacies, either by slacking of their colleagues that do actual work or by sucking up to the right managers.
- chrismarlow9 4y agoOh it definitely happens, I'm not saying it doesn't. But in those examples you mention I would say there are more people who are bad at their job than just the IC who "faked it".