Re:Leetcode has taught me that I'm a bad engineer
by giantg2 on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @07:37AM
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Depends on where you are in finance. I work for a financial company an nobody I worked with was dedicated to algorithms. They seem to rather take the finance PhDs and teach them how to code rather than use developers for that stuff. The rest of us are just handling boring plumbing.
Re:Leetcode has taught me that I'm a bad engineer
by vanusa on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @11:03AM
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But probably 95% of commercial work is styling and wiring buttons.
We're in agreement that algorithms as such probably make up about 5 percent of industry work.
But the other 95 percent -- and I am talking engineering work, not product desgn -- is definitely not simply "styling and wiring buttons". And this is a very myopic view to have.
This is incredibly dependant on your company, team and role. I’ve been knee deep in data structures and algorithms for the last year. When I was at (FAANG) years ago I worked with people who did this stuff full time. You’ll find roles which use these skills in AI, AAA game dev, finance, operating systems and so on.
But probably 95% of commercial work is styling and wiring buttons. Even at big tech companies most of the work is plumbing. The skills you learn on leetcode are completely irrelevant in those roles.