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It’s not hard to make equivalent (or higher) base, but you just lose out on the stock
> just Or you can just learn a handful of puzzle patterns in exchange for more job opportunities that would have the potential for higher overall pay. Seems like a fair trade to me.
Become a Tradesman (Carpenter, Electrician, Mechanic, Welder, Plumber, Cleaner, etd) or a tradesman agency! They've become highly paid and most agencies are ripe for acquisition. But since if you're so lazy/undisciplined to disregard skilling up (Leetcode, Coursera, Udemy, Pluralsight, etc) then I think your race to become one won't be any easier and I can't recommend anything else. Good luck!
What's with the hostility in these comments? OP straight up said he just doesn't like the damn job. Grinding leetcode is not gonna change that. Is everyone just choosing to ignore this?
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In fact, I have probably saved some readers the trouble of also opening a new tab and looking for this added context, by providing it directly within this thread.
Really? Isn’t it common knowledge among educated people? Like the biggest country. I think OP wrote their country like this as a figure of speech and to state that they are one of many.
That's why I looked it up. That's why some other people will look it up.
This is the population difference we're talking about:
1. India, 1,463,865,525
2, China, 1,416,096,094
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This is a good way to frame it. I have no issue with people who choose to do this, but I choose not to.
It just feels obstinate to me. Most people will jump through all sort of bureaucratic/performative hoops when they're in a job to keep it or angle for promotions/minor raises, but this one that has a much higher average RoI turns them off. If you put your foot down on that sort of thing too then fair enough I suppose.
To be fair though, I don’t really want a Big Tech job. Several of the FAANGs, especially Facebook, are morally objectionable to me and I would switch careers before working for them. Most others have shitty working conditions with in-office policies, open office layouts, etc, that are detrimental to me getting work done.
So it’s not just about the financial RoI for me.
And I think I’m at least consistent: I’ve never been one to jump through hoops for raises or promotions either.
> I hate leetcode and that keeps me away from most of the job opportunities Odds are that until you can get past this mindset, you will hit a similar wall in every career, it will just be less obvious to you that you're hitting it. Success at most careers means a lot of tedious grinding out basic skills. If you're lucky you like the grinding, but that's rare. And here's the important part - getting better at this stu…
Maybe I’m not good at the basics, but as an ostensibly quite successful engineer, I have rarely had to do “the basics” at work, and I don’t see how leetcoding would improve my actual performance. Leetcoding is basically testing how well you can cobble together solutions out of a decently large bag of tools. You run into other tools you have to cobble together as part of actual work, but you never have to memorize tho…
The statement I like to use as an analogy to this one is:
"I don't need to know how to add or multiply numbers, calculators can do it"
This is true in a certain sense, but if you are numerate you know that speed with numbers allows you to do all kinds of quick checks that less numerate peers cannot. It's my experience that colleagues who don't get good at leetcode style problems don't actually understand the skills they've left on the table.