Leetcode has taught me that I'm a bad engineer

Re:Leetcode has taught me that I'm a bad engineer by PenguinCoder on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @12:35PM (#29812068)

Self taught programmer here. I get stuff done for the project or program I'm working on. I learn how to do what I need to do securely and automate a lot. I can figure out documentation of frameworks, libraries and random code written 10yrs ago. I can glue things together or write new code in python, golang, C, C++, shell, nim, lua, and others. I'm self taught where it matters to get my job done.

Self learning 'big O' is a waste of time and effort. Never have I needed to know it to accomplish a task beyond interviews. Don't nest six for loops, reading lines from a file into memory each loop. Got it, learnt it, can do. Next problem.

This gatekeeping attitude is bullshit.

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Re:Leetcode has taught me that I'm a bad engineer by kkjjkgjjgg on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @05:05PM (#29815697)

I never used the O notation in a job, but I have seen people waste cycles. For example in the early days of ORM, I saw people load the whole table and then sort and filter in Java, rather than writing appropriate SQL queries.

Understanding Big O notation is not that difficult and everybody knows it is a common question in interviews. Analyzing specific algorithms can of course be difficult.

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