It is humiliating to have to do LeetCode grinding for
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#2LeetCode and similar tests are why I got out of software development as a career. I was tired of jumping through hoops on interviews.
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#4I agree 100%. If a company wants me to do a standardized take home test, I would consider it. If they asked me to balance tree on the spot I would tell them there is almost certainly a well maintained open source library for that or there is google. If they want me to do what amounted to a sprint in thier domain, I would tell them my consulting rate.
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A lot of developers that aren't purely obsessed with frontend or AI-like niches find Leetcoding rote. Ultimately it's just about facing a question you are unfamiliar with and whiteboarding it with a potential employer - it's only humiliating if you've got an ego to swallow.
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#6It's true. But acting like you're above the work also doesn't help you.
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#7I'm building https://wonderful.dev to solve this.
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#8LeetCode and similar tests are why I got out of software development as a career. I was tired of jumping through hoops on interviews.
Which career path did you choose instead?
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It's a very practicable metric that enables you to show that you're worth getting a top job in interviews. It's very merit based even if that merit is less being a good SWE and more being good at problem solving + self discipline.
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#10It's true. But acting like you're above the work also doesn't help you.
Interviews are posturing, not work. The tweet explains all of the work that the candidate is proud to have done, and the disappointment at being judged in a posturing pageant instead.