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Re:RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP... by rTX5CMRXIfFG on Thursday February 26, 2026 @12:49AM (#47162349)
I never really bought in to the anti-Leetcode crowd’s sentiment that it’s irrelevant. It has always mattered as a competitive edge, against other job candidates if you’re an employee or the competition of you’re a company. It only looked irrelevant because opportunities were everywhere during ZIRP, but good times never last.
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Re:RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP... by raw_anon_1111 on Thursday February 26, 2026 @01:39AM (#47162673)
Most developers work at banks, insurance companies and other “enterprise” jobs. Even most developers at BigTech and who are working “at scale” are building on top of scalable infrastructure and aren’t worrying about reversing a btree on a whiteboard.
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Re:RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP... by AdamN on Thursday February 26, 2026 @05:42AM (#47164278)
Agree that the whiteboard thing is often not applicable but it's so nice when a developer has efficient code if only because it indicates that they know what's going on and also that there are fewer bugs and other bottlenecks in the system.
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Re:RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP... by raw_anon_1111 on Thursday February 26, 2026 @07:24AM (#47165111)
Those bugs don’t come from using the wrong algorithm, they come from not understanding the business case of what you’re writing. Most performance issues in the real world for most cases don’t have anything to do with the code. It’s networking, databases, etc.

Your login isn’t slow because the developer couldn’t do leetcode

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Re:RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP... by tracker1 on Thursday February 26, 2026 @10:24AM (#47167314)
No, it's because 50k reads of settings are happening with a SQL Table in memory that's queried via SQL statement instead of a key/value hashtable. (real world experience, I think it was close to 28k reads, but the point stands)
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Re:RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP... by ponector on Thursday February 26, 2026 @06:38AM (#47164678)
It mattered to pass through the interview, but not for the job itself. With all leetcode geniuses in Microsoft why Teams and Windows are so shitty?
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Re:RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP... by majewsky on Thursday February 26, 2026 @07:40AM (#47165248)
Because they are only allowed to review what the LLM has come up with.
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