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by b20000 3y ago
engineering is about creativity and practice and not about memorizing standard solutions. leetcode does not test the skills that matter.
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by b20000 3y ago
i have been a software engineer for 20 years and never had to implement any of this stuff myself in my career. the last time i did was in my master’s program in CS. in contrast i’ve had to implement custom memory allocators and many other n
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by b20000 3y ago
you just confirmed you don’t need any actual skill and just learn the solutions by heart to get hired
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by b20000 3y ago
the last paragraph of the OP highlights the problematic state of hiring. if you can build something, why do you need to leetcode? and if you can leetcode but cannot build something, why should you get hired?
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by b20000 3y ago
i am rooting against it in that it is something we don’t need lots of ideas that we don’t need get VC funding simply because of nepotism or because a very small group of people with money want to realize their dream of also being a genius…
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by b20000 3y ago
you mean demeaning like the typical googler? they have faces, but it won’t change your opinion
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by b20000 3y ago
you know what would be better? no coding interviews the last thing we all need is more bullshit
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by b20000 3y ago
where did you find them, and what country are they in?
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by b20000 3y ago
last time i interviewed about 1.5 years ago that bullshit was still going on. has it changed now? i have the impression this is still being required and nothing has changed. degrees and experience still seem to be in the back seat.
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by b20000 3y ago
not sure but i think distributors in the US add on a stupid high markup that said you can get a leg for 200 bucks on amazon i think i have been thinking of hanging one from the ceiling in our apartment and eat from it when i need a break b
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by b20000 3y ago
i thought, great, finally a place to buy reasonably priced authentic imported prosciutto from italy in bulk or whole leg, but no.
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by b20000 3y ago
Bullying behavior to display power >>> this is what interviewing at google felt like
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by b20000 3y ago
you can’t outperform software written in C
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by b20000 3y ago
you can only raise money if you know people
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by b20000 3y ago
because VCs don’t back them unless they do something that is hot right now and VCs all invest in the same stuff.
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by b20000 3y ago
what about the landscape and investors?
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by b20000 3y ago
I am outsourcing non-core stuff like researching the competitive landscape, investors, contacting prospective users >>> how do you outsource this?
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by b20000 3y ago
btw, there is already a label. it’s called “open source”
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by b20000 3y ago
in consumer electronics people pay over 10k to get a simple device tested for EMC before slapping on CE and FCC.
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by b20000 3y ago
right, and the small guy might offer you transparency and guarantee privacy while big tech won’t.
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by b20000 3y ago
right, so then people will not buy your product because you don’t have the label and you cannot afford to pay 10K-20K to some testing lab while vc backed startups or big tech can… so it takes away any chance for you as a small guy to compet
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by b20000 3y ago
Are you familiar with the saying that if you make something secure nature will create a better fool?
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by b20000 3y ago
I don’t understand how cybersecurity falls within the responsibility of the FCC. I thought the FCC dealt with protecting the radio frequency spectrum.
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by b20000 3y ago
How is a small business going to be able to pay for this? This will be something that big tech can do but not startups that are bootstrapped.
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by b20000 3y ago
i would like to change my consulting into fixed fee or recurring fee just to be “available” when the time comes
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by b20000 3y ago
they don’t want any up to now and say that only leetcode matters when they do start asking for them i won’t be doing leetcode my opinion is that they should use that rather than leetcode interviews and ask people about the code they wrote t
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by b20000 3y ago
sounds like you just need copy pasta drones
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by b20000 3y ago
I have interviewed many candidates from bootcamps. The problem with bootcamps is that they don't teach you the fundamentals and throw you in with some latest hot framework (react etc) without you really understanding the fundamentals.
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by b20000 3y ago
it is hard enough to combine a job with side hustles…

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