Re:5 years of leetcode with no progress. I'm giving up
by UncleMeat on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @08:50AM
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Yeah and then he blames the community for being toxic. This is 100% self inflicted. Incredibly narrow focus at the most competitive companies to the point of spending inordinate time on leetcode and letting their actual work slip.
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Re:5 years of leetcode with no progress. I'm giving up
by jfengel on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @10:52AM
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It does sound like he absorbed some of his toxicity from the community. It's definitely a self-inflicted wound, but it does sound as if he was handed a gun and had it pointed directly at his foot.
That won't be solved by fixing the community, which is an enormous boat that won't turn around any time soon. But it's hopefully a lesson to other people putting themselves in a similar position. The community also contains a lot of people pointing out the footgun.