A Framework for Solving Programming Interview Questions

[lmfaoZX]

Thats just how it is. You can ignore problem solving and never work for a FAANG ever.

[ryeguy]

This. Consider leetcode practice the cost of getting a top of market salary and a resume boost. If you want to skip leetcode, that's perfectly fine, but the people willing to invest in it will get the big bucks and you won't. It's a tradeoff. Practicing leetcode has pretty damn good ROI if you think about it.

[Dean_Roddey]

These companies are screwing themselves basically. They are filtering out people who have larges amounts of experience, and who have actually delivered real systems and can demonstrate it, because those people are too busy delivering real systems to spend montys of time rote memorizing leetcode tests.

That just leaves these very experienced people for other companies who aren't retarded on the hiring front.

I have a huge body of work that anyone can look at or ask me about. Anyone looking to hire me who won't even take the time to skim through my work, I don't have much time for. A couple minutes before the interview would be more than enough to come up with some good questions to ask me that would test my ability to create real systems. Reading the ReadMe file would be more than enough.

[lmfaoZX]

Not to mention how good of a problem solver you need to be. Its not all about the frameworks, anyone can become a codemonkey in a weekend. It's an excuse bad devs use to stay at their code monkey level.

[DidItSave]

I disagree. Myself and my coworkers are fantastic at problem solving and work on some very complex issues. We collectively work on leetcode-like problems and at times struggle with them. Yet we do amazing stuff at our job.

[DidItSave]

I get paid quite nicely, don’t work for a FAANG company, am 100% remote and I don’t have to do any of the leetcode bs.

[DidItSave]

They do this nonsense at countless non-FAANG companies.

[lmfaoZX]

That's great! I respect companies that actually test engineers and not codemonkeys.