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by b20000 1455 days ago
so leetcode grinding doesn’t work and maybe experience is more important then, after all?
2 comments

I imagine it's patently obvious to everybody that leetcode grinding tells you nothing of value. I question the actual experience of anybody that didn't find that out yet.

I believe people put it in interviews because they need some metric, and hey, it's a metric. Quite like the constant attempt on estimating the work done on some software.

yeah, i guess that implies that management are a bunch of incompetent idiots.
Personally, I'd be happy to see a single place where management doesn't do the "we need a metric, this is a metric" dance in some context.

Anyway, it's hard to say somebody is an incompetent idiot when literally everybody does the same thing. It's certainly caused by some structural feature of companies.

I thought leetcode grinding was just for passing the interview, not the actual job?
experience seems to be far less important than leetcode BS in getting hired. experience is really all that should matter.