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TL;DR: specialize in a niche field such as advanced web development or production engineering; you'd be able to be interviewed for your skillset outside of the
by YouWhy 4y ago
TL;DR: specialize in a niche field such as advanced web development or production engineering; you'd be able to be interviewed for your skillset outside of the crowded leetcode funnel.
Proper disclosure: worked for BigTech (hated it). The above is based on my cohort members and peers who were selected as specialists, rather than generalists.
A major thing to consider is - if you excel in the leetcode game, your prize will be peers that are fellow leetcode winners, which is a high grade type of corporate cannon fodder; however people selected by that principle are not expected to be and are not allowed to become the big-picture/high-trust problem solvers that many of us aspire to be.
- aristofun 4y ago> you'd be able to be interviewed for your skillset outside of the crowded leetcode funnel Could you elaborate how this process looks like? You just skip leetcode part?
- YouWhy 4y agoIn the non-US site that I was a part of, there was a separate category of positions whose job descriptions included a very specific "advanced" skillset intersection, for example, resource profiling + React, or OS internals + DevOps. Internally, they had been earmarked for specific teams in a dire need for these specific competencies, and it was apparent that the circuit was very heavy on that and little else - a lot of the people selected were good at what they did but did not have an academic degree and very obviously did not "speak LeetCode". I consider the fact that they still made it though as a tacit acknowledgment that no candidates were obtainable who would both pass LC and have the crucial specific skills. This might have been a local talent pool phenomenon, but I would be surprised if the corporate had granted an exception only to a single "colony", however important.