Re:My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable
by BoorishBears on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @03:00AM
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Your comment starts out making sense then starts to make some weird assumptions and makes the same mistake you're calling out in reverse...
Like "easy", who defines that? Is it easy because it just takes time? By that logic most things in tech are easy right?
In reality it's time spent on stuff often not relevant to a job at all, it's being used as an artificial filter.
Remember this isn't just about knowing, it's about being able to regurgitate it from memory on demand in a timed high pressure test
> has nothing to do with your educational background
Yes it does? People learn this stuff literally because of their educational background.
You can do some pretty amazing things in tech never memorizing half the things you'd need to for Leetcode.
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I'm self-taught, and I know my data structures and algorithms, but I don't know algorithms and their nuances by heart so I don't Leetcode nearly as well as my YOE implies.
I see it as a two way street though, I don't want to work at a place that will turn someone down for not running a hamster wheel...
The venn diagram of "positions that need you to know this without any time to look them up" and "positions that ask you to know them without looking them up during the interview" is practically two circles touching.
I have no problem for jobs that actually need that mind you, but so many jobs couldn't tell you where the practical application of their Leetcode questions would ever come up on the job if their lives depended on it
It's never been a blocker for me, my TC is easily as high as what it'd be at Google or FB and I work on cool things.
Like "easy", who defines that? Is it easy because it just takes time? By that logic most things in tech are easy right?
In reality it's time spent on stuff often not relevant to a job at all, it's being used as an artificial filter.
Remember this isn't just about knowing, it's about being able to regurgitate it from memory on demand in a timed high pressure test
> has nothing to do with your educational background
Yes it does? People learn this stuff literally because of their educational background.
You can do some pretty amazing things in tech never memorizing half the things you'd need to for Leetcode.
--
I'm self-taught, and I know my data structures and algorithms, but I don't know algorithms and their nuances by heart so I don't Leetcode nearly as well as my YOE implies.
I see it as a two way street though, I don't want to work at a place that will turn someone down for not running a hamster wheel...
The venn diagram of "positions that need you to know this without any time to look them up" and "positions that ask you to know them without looking them up during the interview" is practically two circles touching.
I have no problem for jobs that actually need that mind you, but so many jobs couldn't tell you where the practical application of their Leetcode questions would ever come up on the job if their lives depended on it
It's never been a blocker for me, my TC is easily as high as what it'd be at Google or FB and I work on cool things.