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A comment on Ask HN: How do you make time for side projects and Leetcode grinding. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: How do you make time for side projects and Leetco... by satvikpendem on Saturday September 16, 2023 @07:12PM (#37539759)
On the contrary, Leetcode is one of the most egalitarian ways there is for hiring applicants, because if you can pass the test, you're basically hired, at least at FAANG and adjacent. I'd hate to have employers show implicit bias through such saccharine distinctions as "personal fit."
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Re:Ask HN: How do you make time for side projects and Leetco... by ljm on Monday September 18, 2023 @10:15PM (#37564898)
I think you and the other person who replied to me were dismissing the value of soft skills and the other things you need to know as a software engineer that are adjacent to writing code.

To put it another way - do you have an opportunity in leetcode to say the value of solving a challenge isn’t worth the time invested?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you make time for side projects and Leetco... by satvikpendem on Monday September 18, 2023 @10:18PM (#37564918)
Leetcode is the initial layer. Once you show that you can code (because many can bullshit their way through a non-technical interview, I've seen that first hand at other companies where the employee couldn't code themselves out of a wet paper bag), then you go to the later rounds to show your soft skills.
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