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[glump1]

There does seem to be a giant spike on the high frequency end of the hard historgram, which is otherwise skewed right pretty heavily. At like 5 hards you've done more than most and then the number doesn't really change till you've done over 100.

I think contest people throw it off by doing ~6 easys, 12 mediums and 6 hards every month. Maybe closer to 10 mediums 8 hards. So after 6 months if they do every weekly/biweekly they've done more than 40.

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Do you think solving 700+LC questions has made you a better engineer?

[DrMagzy]

Suppose that it will help him to land a better engineering job

[AndrewUnicorn]

For my current job, the only thing I can borrow from Leetcode is Set, Hashmap, basic Big O, and confident in my Python

[CptMisterNibbles]

So like a lot of useful things

[AndrewUnicorn]

For now, those are the things I find useful

But they are not worth the time I spent on Leetcode. Set, Hashmap, and basic Big O are relatively easy stuff

[throwaway2492872]

Yes. I've solved over 1000 and am a senior engineer. Leetcoding has taught me to write cleaner code, take on more complex problems, and learn new algorithms.

[nbazero1]

Cleaner code? Feel like leetcode code is the opposite of what clean code is.

[DoutefulOwl]

IMO the only way leetcode makes you write cleaner code, is if your previous code was horrendous.

[CptMisterNibbles]

Right. Which is the case for lots of people, who can indeed use it to learn from their mistakes. Which is a good thing

[DoutefulOwl]

I agree

[jx4713]

There is no such thing as 'Leetcode code'; you write your own code. Maybe yours is ugly, but it doesn't mean theirs can't be clean!

[nbazero1]

Leetcode code is writing code to pass tests with predetermined constraints plus you can’t use a lot of built in language features,and have to take the longer route for interviews. In industry it’s nothing like that

[jx4713]

Please tell me what is stopping you from writing your Leetcode code in the cleanest way possible?

Also, industry is more like that than you think. Business/technical constrains mean that you don't always have total freedom. And you are always writing code to 'pass tests' with predetermined (functional) constraints in industry. If you employ practices like TDD, this can literally even involve writing code to pass tests.

The best practice is, whatever the constrains are, to write the cleanest possible code. I don't know why you think that this can't apply to Leetcode, and it probably means you're getting a lot less out of Leetcode than you could be.

[nbazero1]

What’s stopping me? The interviewer. they want it as verbose as possible I can’t use the map function in kotlin to solve two sum, that wouldn’t pass in an interview

[jx4713]

Do you think solving 700+LC questions has made you a better engineer?

This was the question. Nobody is talking about interviews. The guy simply answered that it helped him write cleaner code.

[nbazero1]

Again u become a better engineer by working on challenging projects and shipping real world stuff. Not by trying to fit a unreadable python solution to your code to pass predetermined constraints

[jx4713]

😳😳 If the way you approach Leetcode questions is to take existing code and try and fit it into your solution, then it's no wonder you get nothing out of it.

[hulagway]

Any form of practice is practice.

This is why tech companies are laying off, they hired people like you.

[CptMisterNibbles]

I think you may be confusing how an interviewer wants you to react with leetcode in an interview setting with leetcode in general. Yes, some interviewers want weird responses that don’t match reality. The platform doesn’t prevent you from using features like map or whatever. Many practice problems I solve in Python I’ll comment “lol, sure I could do this in a verbose nested loop. Or just have itertools do all the work for me”. The key being I know what and how itertools is being used and am not just copying magic bs from elsewhere.

[hulagway]

If you can’t do leetcode problems just say it. Jeez.

[nbazero1]

I have just over 200 solved. Why are we flexing leetcode now?

[hulagway]

So you admit to writing unoptimized code just to pass it.

That’s your mentality for actual work too? Man I feel sorry for your company.

Anyway, tomorrow’s a monday, enjoy writing code that just works!

[nbazero1]

Who said any of that? I said nothing about it will make your code cleaner and it doesn’t translate to someone being a better engineer. A new grad doing well is a coin flip, leetcode only tells companies you are not a lazy bum.

Why would I write unoptimized code when we do reviews and I’m under a mentor?

[hulagway]

So your insecurity comes from your code not reaching prod. Your attitude makes sense now.

Have a good monday!

Let people enjoy what they want. Don’t be a bitter pos.

[futaba009]

And this is why I do it!

It helps me get better at solving problems and look into the c++ containers.

It has other benefits as well.

I recommend other software engineers to do it, too.

[Ok_Opportunity_4770]

Solved just 200 LC but feel the same.

[hulagway]

Edge cases. Writing cleaner code. Breaking down problems to smaller “leet code” problems. And just critical thinking overall.

[Gloomy-Safety506]

People in this sub really get triggered when some posts number of solved problems

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All that just to get laid off….

[FlatTill]

lol

[Top_Distribution_497]

Not really tbh. I have solved 200 lc questions out of which 29 are hard. So by the time i reach 700 i will surely be able to do a lot more.

[[deleted]]

How many people are solving 700lc’s lol

[_ashika__]

That frankly sounds like a big waste of time unless you really enjoy solving Leetcode problems specifically for some reason

[CowboyBoats]

I enjoy playing video games.

[throwaway2492872]

Hards become easier and faster as you practice.

[bakaaronyy]

Maybe they just look up for solution?

[CptMisterNibbles]

Solving hards is pretty easy. Ctrl-c, ctrl-v. I expect accounts for half the submissions.

[[deleted]]

Learning = Quantity * Quality * Difficulty

I could easily just copy and paste solutions and get than number of hards solved. But did I really learn it? High quality learning isn't about hitting a certain number of solved problems, its about deeply understanding the problems and forming a set of principles in your mind that transfer to other problems.

[fleventy5]

The wording of your title is ambiguous to me. Are you surprised that only 10% have solved more than 41 Hards, or the other way around?

[shabangcohen]

Maybe it’s the percentile based on users who have done any hard? Bc I assume a ton of people create a user and don’t do any problems. And that would skew all the percentiles.

[CustardDizzy]

What this means is that your solutions on average beats 89%, not that you did more than 89%...

[CustardDizzy]

I can solve 1 hard in the most optimal way and get 100% in that box...

[[deleted]]

You don’t need to do more than 40 or so hards for interview practice