Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leetcode’

Re:Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leet... by itake on Friday May 20, 2022 @02:26PM (#31450884)

Join a startup and move into engineering management asap.

If you can hit director level, they stop asking leetcode questions. But if the goal is to eventually get into a Big Tech company, they may down level a startup director to be a line manager (which may still require leetcode).

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Re:Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leet... by anyfoo on Friday May 20, 2022 @02:47PM (#31451109)

Depends entirely on the startup I guess? And, I mean, I could found a company right now and call myself "CEO" and my friend from school who's a brilliant actor with no computer skills "director of IT", that does not say much.

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Re:Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leet... by itake on Friday May 20, 2022 @03:06PM (#31451331)

Experience depends on how many humans are under you. If you're a CEO with 0 full time directs, you would have a difficult time moving into an EM role.

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Re:Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leet... by anyfoo on Friday May 20, 2022 @03:10PM (#31451369)

That’s my point, except stronger, because number of people under you is not sufficient. If you’ve never written a line of assembly, you will have problems managing a compiler backend team for example.

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Re:Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leet... by tlextrait on Friday May 20, 2022 @03:36PM (#31451619)

Please let me know what startup that is so I avoid it at all costs.

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Re:Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leet... by mikymoothrowa on Friday May 20, 2022 @02:45PM (#31451086)

All these people I have in mind are fresh out of college, self taught probably and aren’t old enough to be EM

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Re:Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leet... by itake on Friday May 20, 2022 @03:05PM (#31451310)

This would be a 5-8 year plan. Communicating with your manager early that this is a career goal will help set them up for success in that path.

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