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I doubt it? My willingness to practice leetcode isn't correlated with my interest in new work or the work any given job post describes. It's also not correlate
by abathur 3y ago
I doubt it?
My willingness to practice leetcode isn't correlated with my interest in new work or the work any given job post describes. It's also not correlated with my willingness to invest time in exploring the position.
6 hours of leetcode practice teach me nothing about a position, the work it entails, the problems the company is grappling with, and the people I'd be in the trenches with. 6 hours in conversation or working close to real problems are higher leverage.
I have meaningful open source work with real users in the queue, and blog posts that won't write themselves. I feel like it's pretty reasonable to sort positions that don't compel low-leverage busywork that doesn't help me assess the position above those that do.
Sure, they might mean to exclude me, but I'm skeptical.
- jakjak123 3y agoSame, I'd rather spend 3 hours working with the potential team than spend 12 hours practicing leetcode. If you want to see my code, I have plenty of public domain projects freely available.
- lupire 3y agoI also have plenty of your public domain projects freely available!
- plagiarist 3y agoI also think that might be true. Adding friction filters out candidates who have more choices, which are likely to be the top performers. Hardly anybody wants to work specifically for one particular company, so the people willing to continue despite friction may be more likely to be middle performers.
- paulcole 3y ago> My willingness to practice leetcode isn't correlated with my interest in new work or the work any given job post describes. The job requires you to practice leetcode in order to get the job. If you don’t want to practice leetcode then you don’t want the job.
- abathur 3y agoSince you're apparently here to play semantics games: if you aren't willing to pay your employer for the opportunity to solve their problems, you don't want the job.
- paulcole 3y agoYes! You’re getting it.
- Our_Benefactors 3y ago“Paying your employer to work for them” is commonly referred to as a “scam”.
- paulcole 3y agoStudying and practicing to pass an interview isnt “paying your employer.”