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This has to be the greatest time since 2008 to be hiring tech talent.

Yeah but most companies dont need leet code programmers, they need developers. The market for devs is still strong.

Kind of a blanket comment and seems a bit spiteful and unfair. Granted interviews at those companies could use a refresh and there are probably “leetcode” programmers there for sure, but there’s also plenty of talented developers at those companies.

I'd love to interview as a ' developer '. But I'm a crappy leet coder so I never get to that. I've blown quite a few FAANG interviews due to this.

To be fair, I'm self taught so I don't have a great data structure background. I've still had a good career though.

Did a ton of leet like coding in high school and forgot most of it. Pretty irrelevant to most jobs. Unless you build low level tooling then you really dont bubble sort on a daily basis.

1. Anecdotally these layoffs seem to have affected mostly non-technical roles.

2. The US produces 65,000 [1] CS graduates each year. This doesn't include immigration and people who go into tech having graduated with non-CS degrees.

The layoffs are significant in their local context but I wouldn't think they're large enough to perceptibly affect much on the ground for SWEs.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/us-computer-science-...

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