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The kind of people who do best at FAANG interviews are the ones who enjoy leetcoding. We’re all selecting for the wrong skills.
by herval 3y ago
The kind of people who do best at FAANG interviews are the ones who enjoy leetcoding. We’re all selecting for the wrong skills.
- mewpmewp2 3y agoEven if I enjoy leetcoding and I do, there are tons of things I would rather do before that, and that are far more useful, such as building and working on side projects. So to me leetcoding is a waste of time and less fun than actually building something, having other people use what you have built. And there is infinite things to build there and learn.
- xw30992 3y agoI get that. I only do medium and easy problems for a reason. Hard problems are hard and I want to solve it over morning coffee. :) Then again, I'm sure all of my leisure activities are a waste of time on someone's metric. I probably learn more from the comments than the problems though. People post lots of interesting idioms and it's interesting to me to see how others codify various standard algorithms. Especially across languages.