People
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People are still missing the point
People who cracked FAANG after the LC grind, how is life now?
People who conduct interveiws for big companies (ones that follow the standard LC + system design format), what instructions are you given with regards to how to conduct it?
People who leetcoded for a significant amount of time, can you drop some intuition that you have developed over the months/years. Your signals which suggest you to use a particular data structure/ algorithm for a problem. Your judgements after analysing constraints.
People who hit big tech during the 2020 over hiring
People who got jobs in public sector which are technical, how did you manage to do it ? Is it possible to jump from corporate to public sector?
People on OPT or currently studying what's your endgame?
I don't know what to believe anymore
I have ten yoe and am so burnt out by this crazy shitty never ending hiring processes.
Final round blues
People are starting to lose their minds. My professor was nice enough to bring in a recruiter to answer questions and it was embarrassing
People in This Field Are Abhorrently Bigoted
People who complain about not finding jobs in this sub are too spoiled by the advertised salaries, think way too highly of their talents, and are obsessed with leetcode.
People who physically touch the screen and leave your slug trail from your greasy sausage fingers when pointing things out, why do you do this?
People on an H1B: Did companies fly you in for your onsite interviews?
People who have conducted job interviews, what's something someone said/did that made you instantly decide not to hire them?
People are still missing the point
Question Details
I am seeing a lot of people in my last post getting defensive because FAANG and this and that still asks leetcode. Obviously a 10 year hiring standard does not vanish overnight, but let's not be so narrowsighted. Mind you I went through the SAME grind to get myself to 2400 on lc. And that is exactly my point. Even at that rating, I know lc does not prepare you for real engineering work. So I really doubt people spending this much time on lc are as strong in those areas as they think they are. If every person in the pool has 500+ problems solved, then having 500 solved is worth basically zero as a differentiator. It is the new high school diploma. It might help you get through an ATS or OA, but it does not get you the offer. The truth is people are overinvesting in the easiest and most straightforward part. You solve a problem, get a green checkmark, and feel productive. Meanwhile the stuff that actually takes longer to build intuition for gets pushed aside because it is slower, messier, and way harder to measure. You do not build engineering intuition from a few videos or from memorizing patterns. That comes from building, debugging, breaking things, fixing them, and slowly understanding why systems behave the way they do. I have people reaching out to my company with 1000+ lc problems but they still cannot explain how to handle backpressure in a distributed pipeline or why their async logic causes race conditions. A lot of people are grinding lc like crazy while being completely underdeveloped in the areas that actually matter once the OA is over. So stop arguing about whether lc still exists and start worrying about whether you have any real engineering skill to show for after the screen. If you do, good, this post was not meant for you.