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Re:On Leaving Facebook by lolinder on Saturday January 22, 2022 @12:08AM (#30033796)
The large companies don't need tens of thousands of system architects. They need tens of thousands of coders who can do what they're told on small parts of a system without fussing too much about the bigger picture. I think that's what OP is referring to—leetcode filters for young developers who don't need to understand all the reasons why they're doing what they're doing.
Re:On Leaving Facebook by a10c on Saturday January 22, 2022 @12:28AM (#30033930)
Why would a well rounded senior developer be interviewing for a role that requires a code monkey?
Re:On Leaving Facebook by kodah on Saturday January 22, 2022 @12:55AM (#30034072)
No job is ever phrased as needing a code-monkey and no one wants to think of themselves as a primate doing a very specific task.
Re:On Leaving Facebook by jokethrowaway on Saturday January 22, 2022 @03:37AM (#30034859)
Why would you put out ads for senior engineers when you'll make them perform code monkey tasks?
Re:On Leaving Facebook by hiptobecubic on Saturday January 22, 2022 @09:25AM (#30036853)
Every job has random overhead and your productivity is boosted quite a lot by already being familiar with some random bullshit problem like "don't configure your test environment this way or you'll run out of file handles after a day or two." Hiring more experienced people means fewer delays due to issues like that, even for boring "code-monkey" work.