Re:Follow-up to “The dystopian world of software engineering...
by dpbriggs on Saturday February 22, 2020 @05:58PM
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Hey, those people still exist. Myself and a few other people I know got their start making terrible games in python.
Heck I was too young when I started learning lisp (clojure). Took a long time to get used to non-functional constructs.
Things definitely changed once I got to university though. Competition for internships meant I had to get good at interviewing. The CS program I am in encourages the career focused so grinding leetcode is popular. One of my interviewers asked me a number, and used that to retrieve the n'th leetcode question from memory.
There does exist a small cadre of people, myself included, who find leetcode and similar interview grinds unethical. I'd rather spend my time having a life or learning/building interesting tech. Interviews are then less of a performance art and instead a genuine 1-1 to work through a problem.
Heck I was too young when I started learning lisp (clojure). Took a long time to get used to non-functional constructs.
Things definitely changed once I got to university though. Competition for internships meant I had to get good at interviewing. The CS program I am in encourages the career focused so grinding leetcode is popular. One of my interviewers asked me a number, and used that to retrieve the n'th leetcode question from memory.
There does exist a small cadre of people, myself included, who find leetcode and similar interview grinds unethical. I'd rather spend my time having a life or learning/building interesting tech. Interviews are then less of a performance art and instead a genuine 1-1 to work through a problem.