QuitProgramming

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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
Thank you for sharing this video. I think it really gets at the heart of something a lot of people don't want to hear or are ignorant on. As you say, it's hard enough being actually skilled and deserving so imagine being neither o
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
Your reasoning for why Leetcode is bad is a bit flawed. The reason why it works is because it's correlated with other performance. The fact that a customer don't ask for it before they give you a job doesn't disprove the corr
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
>Your statement here is false. 99% of programming is using skills that are rather unlike the talent you need for leetcode. Do you have evidence for this claim? Specifically, that the skills and talents that make one good at Leetcode are
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
Being part of that 99.999% doesn't seem to be a good life.
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
Where are the non-FAANG, non-leetcode guarded 120k entry level jobs?
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
I'm not sure how you are coming to the conclusion that I take no responsibility. The whole point of my post is that I am not good enough. That's a pretty damning criticism of the self. I only blame others in the sense that they hi
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
6 figures starting.
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
>The book How to Design Programs... I will check this book out. >Lastly, even though receiving material rewards is nice, re-framing motivation towards contribution rather than receiving can mitigate disappointment in any endeavor in l
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
>I'll just say it's better to be mediocre at something than to do nothing. A non-FAANG job/tech endeavor will still expose you to a lot of opportunities. You may not immediately be making what you want to make, but over 10
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
I think the "you need to love what you do to be successful" is just a fallacy that became a meme. If it were true a much higher percentage of people would be well respected and successful artists, for example. In our field, more c
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
I don't think it's for you or anyone else to determine what the appropriate take away from something is unless I made a purely a logical error. The person mentioned a variety of points and the most unique and helpful one was the o
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
I'm saying the skill set and talent that allows one to be good at Leetcode and on the job programming are correlated and I am lacking in both.
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
Do you have specific examples of jobs like that that pay on the latter end of that spectrum? Solutions engineer also sounds interesting. Thank you for mentioning it.
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
Please share some specific examples.
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
They cost money rather than generate money.
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
I'm extremely interested in the neuro-atypical friend and him learning scripts and social macros. Could you expand on that?
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
Thank you for a comment. It's relief to find someone who has a perspective that lines up with modern research on intelligence. There is so much denial as so many of these people seem to think everyone is more or less like the people th
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
I worked at a bottom tier company for 1.5 years. I got fired and hated my time there. I never want to repeat that experience.
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
I have done the calculations and only the FAANG level companies will get me where I want to go when I want to be there.
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
I'm only interested in FAANG money and being able to retire early. Those are my goals.
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
I am not good enough to pass FAANG interviews. I am very bad at networking.
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
>If you allow me to guess something about your person with no basis at all: is it possible you just don't enjoy it? I know that for myself if I enjoy something I spent a lot of time thinking about it, even "down time" when
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
I want a FAANG level job though.
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
When did Google prove that?
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
Not being good enough after 5 years to pass a FAANG interview.
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
Ok can you give anything concrete?
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
I want a FAANG level job so, yea, I might be. Don't want to do programming otherwise though.
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
>That is the first line in the article that you have shared. So what? >Try finding any aspect of programming that brings out the same satisfaction in you and you will succeed. This is wishful thinking. Plenty of people love things the
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
>Neither of these are relevant if you want to work as a programmer. I say this because probably millions of programmer never done any of those things before they get a job as a programmer. Yes, underlying talent and intelligence is what
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by QuitProgramming 6y ago
I mean Leetcode type interviews are the primary filter these companies use. Sure, I don't need to literally solve every question, but I need to be able to do it well enough to pass the interview. Not being good enough means I can'

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