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The Leader of the LeetCode Rebellion: An Interview with Roy Lee

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post #6

This guy must have some strong connections to get this sort of coverage out of an AI wrapper + a few gimmicky twitter posts

He went to Columbia and he seems kinda unhinged. The former is really all you need. It's a small club, and the rest of us aren't in it.

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post #6

This guy must have some strong connections to get this sort of coverage out of an AI wrapper + a few gimmicky twitter posts

He parlayed his AI wrapper into fooling Amazon into a prized job offer by gaming an unpopular algorithmic interview technique.

It isn’t that he made AI wrapper, it’s that he pointed out the king has no clothes with it.

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post #4

I really feel like this guy is paying for placement and articles about himself. Just today, I've seen a twitter thread and this post. Searching for him also shows a Gizmodo article from today. And it really seems to be a case of trying to stir controversy for engagement.

Yep, using the tool in secret broke the interview spirit for sure. And now it's just a way to promote his software, it seems.

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I don't know what to make of this guy, I've seen him on X for a while; at first I just thought he was an obnoxious student and a crazy bridge-burner who was going to quickly regret his escapades.

I didn't follow him then but he kept coming up in my feed and there was something about his focus and message that seemed as amusing and sincere as it was egotistical and immature.

Now I'm still not convinced of his angelic qualities but more sympathetic to his mission and at least a little of his showboating seems courageous.

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must say i wasnt impressed with the interview coder code nor its organization. skimmed another of his repos and it was basically a minimal chat app wrapping a dozen-ish prompts along the lines of "you are the user's horny anime wife. chat horny style to them. but not tooo horny."

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#27
post #6

This guy must have some strong connections to get this sort of coverage out of an AI wrapper + a few gimmicky twitter posts

He parlayed his AI wrapper into fooling Amazon into a prized job offer by gaming an unpopular algorithmic interview technique. It isn’t that he made AI wrapper, it’s that he pointed out the king has no clothes with it.

"If I cheat I can get high score" does not mean the king has no clothes.

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post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He parlayed his AI wrapper into fooling Amazon into a prized job offer by gaming an unpopular algorithmic interview technique. It isn’t that he made AI wrapper, it’s that he pointed out the king has no clothes with it.

"If I cheat I can get high score" does not mean the king has no clothes.

Is it cheating if you use the same tools to solve a problem as you would in a job? "No calculators" is lame when the job entails using calculators.

Re: The Leader of the LeetCode Rebellion: An Interview with Roy Lee

#30
post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He parlayed his AI wrapper into fooling Amazon into a prized job offer by gaming an unpopular algorithmic interview technique. It isn’t that he made AI wrapper, it’s that he pointed out the king has no clothes with it.

"If I cheat I can get high score" does not mean the king has no clothes.

The end result of all this, they go back to in person interviews, at least for a "final" round.

Or some alternative, there is some trusted third party monitoring the candidate.

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