Re:Caltech's CS interview prep course
by ryandrake on Sunday February 27, 2022 @04:58PM
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Yea, think of it less as a "government issued license allowing you to do software" and more of a certificate that says "I recently passed a level $LEVEL leetcode grind, you only need to test me for specialized skills or for a level greater than $LEVEL." If it actually worked and couldn't be gamed/cheated (good luck with that), it could reduce interviews to a simple check of domain knowledge not covered by the certificate.
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It is already a massive waste of human potential to overstress leetcodes.
I'd rather have candidates studying unit test design, debugging, security hardening, technical writing, localization, or pretty much anything else that comes up more often in practical development.