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 feel like most of the "bhaiya-didis'' leave their high paying FAANG jobs to 'teach' Indian youth coding; actually got fired or resigned because the only thing they were good at was LC & couldn't do actual dev work.
This
Brutual truth
Facts. Know a colleague who is Gaurdian on LC and has solved over 1200 problems, say "wo to devops ka kaam hai na?" When told to deploy the microservice. He has 4 years of experience 😀
Every company thinks they’re Google and need Leetcode monkeys to work with their proprietary in-house systems.
99.9% of the people are unable to get their data structures to work in a multi threaded environment in my interview....
Is DSA worth it?
Well DSA was supposed to be a test of solving a problem with constraints, multiple options and take a decision to come for a solution....Now that questions have become standard and people can get coached, it's original purpose has become obsolete...
7-8 years ago leetcode wasn't that mainstream in india(for interviews), so how is it responsible for incompetency of senior devs?
Very true. It has no practical value.
So nowadays, well groomed stories are equivalent to spoon feeding ? Talking to product and customers ? Looks like one man band friend.
You misunderstood the point. Senior devs should be able to groom stories for juniors, give reasonable estimates, be able to plan execution and deal with ambiguity.
I fundamentally belive SDEs should participate in use research and get to know how their product is getting used. That involves talking to customers and collaborating with product/ux/ds
Yeah got your point. I think senior engineers should participate and build engineering culture and help team to go in the right direction. Leetcode is for the filtering and many companies have engineering manager or cultural fit rounds to determine if the person is a right fit. Maybe that is not enough.
people who are writing if else and for loops will be long fucked.As coming time will require u to be a 100x engineer
Loyalty is just killed. I see devs with just 10 - 12 month experience at each company and claiming they cfeated google
Q for smart coders : what is it that you can so with recursion that you cannot with iteration when you implemented the same algorithm?
In other words why are production codes written in recursion not iteration?
Any recursive code can also be written in an iterative way, but some algorithms are easier to implement using recursion. For example, I used recursion to parse a syntax tree produced by a custom query parser.
I see some companies (especially famous ones) are still obsessed over these leetcode type questions in interview rounds even for experienced folks, it’s frustrating.
I see some companies (especially famous ones) are still obsessed over these leetcode type questions in interview rounds even for experienced folks, it’s frustrating.
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