I was watching a video on YouTube and a commercial for "The Thinning" came up. It's a dystopian scifi movie about the authorities creating an optimal society by reducing population by executing high school kids who don't pass their standardized exams (no retakes - one chance only). I couldn't help but think that this is pretty much what the tech interview process has turned into. Should have been called "The LeetCode" instead 🤣🤣🤣.
So you are one of those people who starts telling everyone about an article they just read when it was just the headline?
My 68 year old mother does this. The other day she was like oh I'm reading this book and it's so good it's about this and this, and i ask a few questions and she's like oh i only read the back cover so far...
What's your point? Leetcode happens to have a collection of 600+ coding questions which cover a diverse set of algorithms and data structures.
Leetcoders are the suckers not the other way around. To put things in perspective, my cousin lives near dc, 35 male, 200k/yr tc, 1 kid, 1 wife, 2 houses (1 paid off, 1 isn't), no other debt, nw around 700k, great stress-free life. This guy LAUGHS at silicon valley interview processes and folks spending their lives miserable with leetcode. His first question when I explained top down dp was, "Are you going to blow up your memory to paging limits? How the fuck is that dp shit efficient?" His point: Silicon Valley engineers seem retarded to focus on irrelevant stuff and waste so much of their lives leetcoding that they have deluded themselves into thinking those toy programs achieve anything. If there's any thinning, the rest of society is going to use leetcoders as sucker factory workers. Guys like my cousin will just hire these memorizing nerds for cheap.
Hahahaha the "this is stupid this is memory inefficient" is what I think of each time I look at these algorithm problems.
Your cousin in the swamp is likely to be the target of draining soon. We as a country can no longer support these many parasites in DC. What skill does your cousin have after that happens?
“The Thinning” movie does reflect reality in the sense that ppl who don’t pass the “exam” in real life will end up making a much smaller salary than those who do. This is nothing more than natural selection. The gap between the rich and poor will get wider and wider over time, and this is actually a natural trend. The reason why this is happening is because humans are getting more and more efficient, and it will take less and less ppl to do the same things in future. So the limited number of ppl required for doing work will need to be smarter and smarter. Hopefully the rest can just chill and still survive somehow. I am not advocating for this trend at all, but I don’t think anyone in this world can stop or reverse it.
That's fine, as long as it doesn't become a society where only the rich have a chance at becoming rich
SW jobs are growing. But more people want to get into it.
Humans may be getting more efficient, but it is arguable that humans are becoming less productive as well.
In terms of having babies, yes, humans are becoming less productive.
We use ever better tools to build things, whether it is software or anything else, so productivity is hard to measure. The Roman empire didn't have even 1 hp calculator, how do we compare. But we don't use tools on babies.
As more “shortcut to SDE” programs emerge to take advantage of increase demand, I think Leetcode interviews will become more useful. Nothing worse than having to fill in the academic gaps for a “successful” bootcamper.
I'm a genius who thinks a crammable interview regimen is somehow proof against coding cram camps.
I recently started following this guy.. Leetcode solutions - Keep Learning Everyday https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLod2hJhyen5fBGkRZelDtg5YBVgd8aSvx He solves mainly FAANG related problems. Another guy by name Kevin is also good.
Lukewarm reviews, you recommend it?
I only saw the one minute YouTube trailer. That was sufficient for me.