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I have similar feelings with leetcode. I love software engineering, but leetcode makes me hate software engineering. I just want to build cool stuff. I don't
by game_the0ry 3y ago
I have similar feelings with leetcode.
I love software engineering, but leetcode makes me hate software engineering.
I just want to build cool stuff. I don't want to implement LRU cache and another leetcode medium-hard in under 40 mins from memory.
- mihaitodor 3y agoJust say no to it. I decided to go public and add on my LinkedIn and now on GitHub too a disclaimer (see here https://github.com/mihaitodor https://github.com/mihaitodor) that I refuse to do Leetcode-style interviews or anything like that and I'm happier since. Sure, there are companies which will refuse to talk to me because of this, but that's fine. I never passed one of those interviews anyway and always had to take jobs where I didn't have to live code during the interview.
- margorczynski 3y agoYeah the problem these kind of interviews don't even test how well you think about a problem and how capable you are of designing the solution. The expectation is that you basically perfectly memorize the optimal solution (which was probably found by some Ph.D. working on algos). And in the end you're end up implementing some endpoints for a 1k MAU CRUD.
- kirso 3y agoWhats the last time you used bubble sort in your Linktree clone side-project?