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A comment on Caltech's CS interview prep course. Parent comment

Re:Caltech's CS interview prep course by shahbaby on Sunday February 27, 2022 @05:09PM (#30493164)
Reminder, our field isn't regulated.

Anyone can go online and learn enough to be useful at a high paying entry level job.

At some point there has to be a filter and that's what these interviews are for.

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Re:Caltech's CS interview prep course by ip26 on Sunday February 27, 2022 @05:58PM (#30493684)
The curse of a field which is both competitive yet difficult to measure. A meritocracy where your true status is opaque.
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Re:Caltech's CS interview prep course by Apocryphon on Sunday February 27, 2022 @05:15PM (#30493242)
The kind of license I’m suggesting doesn’t change any of that. It would literally be formalizing the existing Leetcode process so it doesn’t have to be retaken many times.
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Re:Caltech's CS interview prep course by bluedino on Sunday February 27, 2022 @05:59PM (#30493688)
The trick is proving to an employer what you know. Hard to get a resume past HR when you've worked in other industries and learned all your coding online.
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