Does LeetCoders Give you FOMO

3 months Intern at a (Top 4 IIT) summer intern at a product based company(very well known) 9 months intern at very well funded startup. Did not get ppo from summer intern and startup, both ppo above 20 LPA package Had to start at a bank as sde below 9 ctc Feeling demotivated if i should continue in software

Why are some tech bros so arrogant in terms of hiring advice. Always seeing on Twitter seeing alpha macho software engineers saying if you can't do leetcode the world is going to eat you up and you're not gonna make it. Are these people psycho? Why do they think that if you don't follow their recommended path you're doomed forever. This shit is making me depressed.

I'm a 4th year student from a pvt college. Did 3 internships, one in a decacorn, one in a unicorn. Have an offer from Amazon for SDE 1 when i graduate, and one from the company I'm working at right now. Reached so far only with development skills, projects, hackathon wins and OSS contributions. My leetcoding and competitive coding skills are downright garbage. I have absolutely no motivation to become a leetcode monkey and get more offers, but given the current market scenario, seems hard to get good offers without mugging up 800 leetcode questions. Folks in software engineering who made it with leetcode, how did you do it, and what did you do to kill that builder urge and mug up leetcode. I can't do this anymore.

Before you raise your pitchforks let me preface by saying that I am glad LC exists which has allowed me to basically double my comp in a very small time and I have seen many people able to make jumps into high paying jobs and bettering their lives. Having said that, I sometimes feel I am working with absolute buffoons who need to be spoon fed at every single step to get any meaningful progress. These people are excellent when tasks are well groomed and will complete them efficiently. Now put them in an ambiguous situation that will need talking to product and/or customers and no progress will be made for weeks. Every single solution would be hacked together quickly without giving it some thought as to what the longer term implications might be. Asking them to work on projects that need coordination with multiple teams means risking deadlines and escalations. I would expect a fresher with no experience to struggle with the above but not seasoned devs with 7-8 years under their belt and at this point I have seen too many of them. There's definitely a place for leetcode but I think practical questions is a better vetting tool. /rant

I just right now read interview experiences of some folks on leet code, and damn man.. Saw people clearing 5 - 6 rounds having dsa system round, etc and getting dream package. I am someone who is sort of completely very basic engineer. I have 3 yoe but till now it 8s just cloning repo from gitlab, doing task and then pushing it for approval. Nothing else I have worked upon, I want to become like them and get good package but just got scared sort of like how and where to learn all these things.... Anyone here who was like me and changed themselves....

Been looking to switch but on one opening of devops/sre/cloud engineer role there are more than 1000 applicants. So according to all the seasoned DevOps/SRE/Cloud engineers out there, what would you suggest to stay unique in this field? Apart from constant learning obviously.

Hello everyone I am currently in my 4th year of Btech CSE and doing a 6-month internship in a fintech company Here I don't get to work on real projects just time waste tasks and empty assurances that one day I will get In FOMO, I did grind leetcode and also got a job but never been able to become very good at it I started doing projects (MERN) after work, on weekends it feels great to do projects but the thing is that I get limited time and the projects do not appear a big deal to anyone as I am making them on my own (No to " tutorial hell") gradually process of learning So my question is should I quit my job and develop my skills in MERN and other tech as I still have btech left it will not appear as a gap Also, I have 2-3 product ideas in my mind that I can work on Should I take a leap of faith?