There I said it. Each one of you who ended up interviewing other people and kept setting higher and higher technical bars instead of focusing on practicality RUINED the silicon valley. I’m talking to Google, Apple, and whoever ended up copying those two. Leetcode easys became leetcode hards and then they became 14 step interview cycles It’s all over “I’ve learned calculus in college and I’ve never used it my entire life” situation. Leetcode ruined the creativity of Silicon Valley. I hope your ego is fulfilled. Congrats. Now go work on the login button color of Google sign in page or the cafeteria website of Microsoft after filling out 46 dropdown boxes on JIRA. If you ever interviewed someone and asked leetcode hard for absolutely no reason, you deserve that and you deserve the most boring projects in the entire FAANG even. You made that happen. Congrats. TC:200k
“Work on cafeteria website of Microsoft” 😂 I remember that post
Op is preaching truth I guess someone who can a LC hard is less likely to be a regard than someone who can’t. It’s all about mitigating the risk of being a regard.
Yeah this pretty much. I love coding but leetcode makes me hate writing code.
H1b ruined the valley
This.
There is nearly a million on h1b in USA. Uscis budget this year 865M. Use that leetcode hards and do the math. No one cares about valley
They ask questions applying calculus too, in addition to LC. You better bush up chain rule and partial derivatives.
At Amazon, I was asked a question that required a math logic I didn’t know. I was a fresh graduate at the time. It didn’t seem fair to me. I also had system design which I later found isn’t common for fresh graduate interviews. Too bad I didn’t clear.
The result is the Chinese takeover of the valley. Leetcode grinder army!
Chinese workers at Airbnb used to have a we chat group chat where they would share the interview questions and answers so they could cheat the process.
JP - any sauce? Id actually like to see those conversations.
The Micrsosft cafeteria website is actually kind of nice. Works better than doordash and ubereats!
Feel free to open your own tech company that don't use leetcode then outcompetes company that does
Brain dead logic
leetcode style questions were supposed to be proxy for iq, but nowadays it's a proxy for memory
I think this is the only accurate post here.
Bobby Fischer hated chess after summiting the pinnacle because it was all memorization and pattern matching. Memorization and pattern matching are lower level cognitive abilities, below creativity and problem solving. The PSAT is iirc the test most correlated to IQ that an appreciable number of people take. Why is that? Because you don't study for the PSAT.
Skill issue if you can't crack leetcode
Skill issue if you can only judge someone through leetcode!
Yeah so much skill to edit the color of a cancel button