[bambax]

> many of these leetcode tests can be practiced (...) This makes it a really poor signal

It signals dedication/motivation at the very least.

It seems the people complaining are people who can't leetcode and, for some reason, won't practice. But why?

You either can leetcode, and it's all good, or you can't, and you should simply practice.

People who can't be bothered to practice leetcode for a couple of weeks to get past the tech interview, probably don't want the job enough.

[pharmakom]

I’m actually quite good at leetcode (or so I like to think). The reason people are annoyed is that they must jump through hoops for something that is a poor signal of job performance so it feels like a waste of time.

[62951413]

Two weeks is not enough even to read something like https://www.amazon.com/Dynamic-Programming-Coding-Interviews... unless you are already unemployed. Also, some of us have practiced actually writing software for the last 20 years. And in my limited spare time I'd rather study something useful.

The world is full of people who have passed leetcode puzzles. But to this day somehow I see more JSON over HTTP than gRPC in the wild. Or developers (or is it their managers?) saying that Scala is too complicated. Comments in the code? Meaningful README files? Even descriptive commit messages are less common than HN would make you believe.