Compared to work, LeetCode medium/hard questions are a walk in a park. You simply learn one single language and practice on the website. The risk is lower (I don't cause a global outage with $1M revenue loss if I make an error in my LeetCode submissions, I just debug safely). At work, you require more than Leetcode skill: learn multiple programming languages, configurations (including internal tooling, different config languages), stacks, complex codebases, databases, software design, work as a team, work with other teams, product design/management, communication, oncall, manage blockers, leadership, preventing/fixing global outages urgently under pressure, debugging complex outages, making sure your product generates a decent profit, manage tech debt, optimising very difficult algorithms harder than inverting a binary tree or other LC Hard questions... That, compared to learning one single language and basic data structures. The amount of practice you need to get good at Leetcode (and communication in an interview scenario) is trivial compared to getting good at these skills. - Update DISCLAIMER: Viewpoints are my own based on 3 YOE. I have made assumptions about people's work. I have assumed passing the interview for a specific company is, for the majority, harder than ramping up and working in that company as a software engineer - which I cannot confirm is correct. Please do not take my post literally. Please do not be discouraged in practising Leetcode, as I practiced 300 hours myself for the interviews. If someone got into "Facebook", would you say most employees would feel ramping up would be harder than passing the Facebook interview. Is ramping up in FANG easier than passing the FANG interviews for the average employee? Is passing Leetcode interviews for a company harder than ramping up in that same company, for 50% of SWEs world-wide?
I thought I was the only one! I remember being so hyped after seeing so many comments here about it and after a couple hours fully on it thinking to myself “Leetcode is so lame”...
Leetcoding itself is fun, but have to do hundreds when having a full time job and kid is hard
Two separate skills.
Because you don't leetcode 8hs a day
Work still feels hard after 5000+ hours of experience. Leetcode is easy with 300 hours experience.
Yoe?
What all places you worked and you consider it easier than leetcode?
I work at JPMC because I fucking loathe hard engineering work and bad WLB.
Running a marathon is harder than leetcode as well. What is your point?
My point is, the Albertsons interview process is harder than running a marathon.
Exactly. You have reached the pinnacle of shitposting on TB.
Your first mistake was assuming everyones job is like yours. Most ppl aren't doing anything of importance and their absence at work probably wouldn't even be felt. This is just a classic example of being unable to see from a viewpoint that isn't your own.
I want to spark discussion to get further view points. This post is my own assumption and viewpoint. If someone got into "Facebook", would you say most employees would feel ramping up would be harder than passing the Facebook interview. Is ramping up in FANG easier than passing the FANG interviews for the average employee? Is passing Leetcode interviews for a company harder than ramping up in that same company, for 50% of SWEs world-wide? Most people's absence at work including mine won't be felt if I get replaced.
Not everyone is gifted as you are.
Op maybe come work in the contracting side. I put in maybe 3 hours a day (of mostly just meetings that have no importance of me) and do nothing else. You can live your dream of being paid 50k to leetcode
Coming up with new ML model, figuring out stable training algorithm, successfully training it so to beat the previous best result is hard too 🤣
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Last time was a month ago resolving a large outage. 8 hours of several Leetcode interviews per day is easier than 8 hours of daily work. LeetCode is 30-60 minutes because it is easier than some projects.