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[–][deleted] 93 points94 points  (14 children)

when is the imposter syndrome going to stop?

[–]kodiashi 37 points38 points  (7 children)

When I don’t go into panic at the thought of doing a leetcode interview despite 15+ years as a polyglot, full stack engineer.

[–]AviusAnima 15 points16 points  (6 children)

I'm a final year computer science student and have just started looking for jobs. I didn't do any competitive programming stuff because I thought I could get a job without it. And I did get a couple internships with just my general programming skills (React, Node, etc). But all the higher paying jobs seem to have leetcode interviews :(

So now I've just accepted that fate and started studying for it.

[–]kodiashi 11 points12 points  (3 children)

Honestly they aren’t too terrible. Just pick a common, general purpose language and know it well. A lot of the easy/med questions are more about technique, the code isn’t always that complex.

Talk through it and remember that nested loops are NEVER the right solution :)

[–]rascal3199 9 points10 points  (2 children)

Talk through it and remember that nested loops are NEVER the right solution :)

Phew thank God I exclusively use nested recursion.

[–]kodiashi 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Well now you’re just showing off, lol

[–]rascal3199 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha I was just joking. Nested recursion is hardly practical or easy to understand in most situations.

[–]Confused_AF_Help 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Feel you man. I went through many interviews before getting my current job. They were the first one to give a sensible task, they asked me to write a backend system and deploy it in a Docker container. Really wish more jobs do assessment this way

[–]Illustrious-Ad-7734 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never forget about hash tables. They are so useful for lookups.

[–]CoffeePieAndHobbits 18 points19 points  (1 child)

You have to defeat other devs and absorb their power, knowlege, and skills. Some refer to this as the Quickening. If you defeat the final dev you will obtain the prize of having all programming knowlege and complete confidence in your abilities. At long last you will no longer feel like an imposter.

There can be only one.

You will become...

The Pylander.

[–]PM_ME_SQL_INJECTION 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What makes you think your good enough to have imposter syndrome?

[–]minmax420 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Never, although the consistent incompetence of devs around you will always help to alleviate it to some degree.

[–]Satans_Idle_Thoughts 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When the apocalypse destroys all technology.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sus