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why do young programmers need to pass? nobody gives a shit whether experienced people pass leetcode so give me one good reason why you should rate young programmers differently.

i don’t need them here, i am not writing a book

for me cracking the coding interview is stressful

i prefer the bug squash question. i have 20 years of experience. i will probably do well.

a fresh grad might fail. do i care? no. leetcode has benefited fresh grads and is being used to discriminate against those with anxiety and other disorders and those who are older.

i think it is refreshing to try a different interview method, one that benefits those with experience.

people say a lot of things. observe what they do.

also they don’t know what they want. they only know what they don’t want.

but i thought leetcode made sure you hire competent engineers?

what they say is less important than what they do

have you considered that at some point it might make your kid feel inadequate? i think when talking about success stories it is important to sketch the complete picture of someone’s life including what didn’t go so well … too often we only hear about overnight successes 50 years in the making.

hourly rate in CA?

You should not need customers to get accepted. If you do then i’m not sure i understand what YC is about.

I thought this was for planning wedding dinner seating. Maybe there should be a little more background info on the page.

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also

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S088761770...

i recommend this approach as well, i've done this to keep track of statistics

most loved?

What did you expect?

I think the disconnect between what CS programs teach and how the real world operates is growing. Look at how the hiring process is broken. Anyone with a good CS degree should pass through that process. However, even if you are a really good engineer and graduated in a good CS program, there is no guarantee you will pass the interviews (primarily talking about the US market and in particular big tech). On top of that you have endless frameworks and tools for which the relevancy is a few years.

The question to ask is, do you REALLY want to study CS or are you just doing it for the money? When I studied CS I thought I would have "social standing" and would have a great career paying top dollar. Later on I realized there are lots of positions where people do not work as hard as engineers and where they make good money as well if not more than in a CS career. The exception might be if you have equity that suddenly becomes very valuable. But how many times does that really happen? Most startups go nowhere.

I thought having studied CS I would not just have to be an engineer. I think the reality is that that is what most people end up doing for the rest of their careers. And you might realize later on you don't actually like doing that every single day.

do you think it was a better or easier time to start a company back then and bootstrap it VS today and why or why not?

“ the software engineering community has reached a consensus” … hahaha no sorry, I don’t think so

Your priority should be to learn how to build better software and not force a new language onto people.

do you remember the age old saying about nature and fools?

if you didn’t work on a project during your CS degree or before then i don’t understand why you think you should be hired anywhere.

yeah, and they still can’t build real solutions despite passing leetcode

paper

And some applicants don't have time and should not be required to grind leetcode.

If you went through a decent 4-year CS program you will have been required to do coding projects, so if you have NO code to show, either you went to a shit program, OR you cannot write code.

It doesn't matter if you have a github. I have lots of code and very little in github because I don't want to open source it.

I cannot imagine how someone can be a good programmer yet NEVER has written any code they can show. So did they have time to spend 6 months grinding leetcode but didn't even write a simple application? That makes no sense to me.

"I just designed it" = it makes sense to me and if anyone else is unable to understand my quirky problem then they can't write software. OK.

i takes months to prepare and memorize optimal solutions:

during an interview in my experience it is timed AND you need to give the optimal solution AND you need to talk while coding

hiring those good at leetcode will get you a team consisting of people who had the time to practice and are good at practicing. that’s it.

not passing leetcode interviews has no meaning regarding someone’s capabilities.

and BTW i am not talking about a basic for loop type problem.

if you don’t have code projects of your own then that is a much bigger red flag than inability to do timed leetcode style interviews

i prefer a take home

i don’t need coding assistants

i have no time to grind leetcode

ok so then all FAANGS are not an option

they all do it

I offered this at some point and they don’t want the code due to IP issues or don’t believe you wrote it.

do you want to build one or does your son want to build one?

selling digital products online… what is new? how did they get to 1MM ARR with all the competition?

so when is the last time you used this in your code you write on a day to day basis?

welcome to real software development