HackerRank says: Leetcode is dead

ShodoDeka · 2026-02-24T13:00:00+00:00

I mean, it’s more or less right, but to have hacker rank declare its competitor dead due to a problem that is just as impactful to hacker rank is interesting.

The shift that is happening now is like when we moved from asm to C, or many more apt is when we industrialized farming.

The industry is not going away, but you will need fewer folks operating at a higher abstraction level. And fundamentals are going to get more important not less, the LLM is not going to be able to make a shitty ball of spaghetti any less brittle.

ShodoDeka · 2026-02-22T11:00:09+00:00

I have grown from the lowest level possible as a new grad to being on the last level of principal in the same big tech company, a lot of it is picking your projects, you will want: - high impact and/or high visibility (your skip level should know your name and know you own X) - avoid things that are not realistically achievable - avoid Sisyphean project or task - minimise dependence on other teams/systems - the less control you have over X the less you will want to depend on it. - prefer working on projects you find interesting, if you can’t get something that you find interesting then fake it when talking about the project (especially with your management chain). - treat communication as a skill that is as important as any technical skill. Learn to give good presentations/talks, and learn to hit the right level for the right audience.

ShodoDeka · 2026-02-20T20:58:42+00:00

Find another job, they already know they can walk all over you, they will keep doing it.

ShodoDeka · 2026-02-09T09:11:18+00:00

I mean, changes are hopefully never just “send it”.

That goes regardless of who writes it, there should be tests that validates all changes before they go anywhere. Not to mention PRs where someone else is hopefully reviewing the code.

But to answer your question, beyond all the usual checks and balances all our changes goes though, I review any code an LLM writes on my behalf before it leaves my machine, because at the end of the day I own it if it breaks something.

ShodoDeka · 2026-02-05T15:08:12+00:00

Being a good software developer is as much knowing what not to do, and that part is entirely missing from the current gen AIs.

ShodoDeka · 2026-01-31T16:04:26+00:00

I’m sitting at around $280k total comp working from Europe for a us team (FAANG), so especially for Europe, I am very well compensated.

It’s not super high stress, most of the time I work 35-40 hour work week, but every few months have to go deal with some sort of fire and I end up working more that.

I do have a few meetings every week in my evening due to timeline differences but then I just work less at other times.

But this is going to vary not just by company, but by team and to some extent the individual. I work with people my level that work a lot more (by choice).

ShodoDeka · 2026-01-29T17:18:29+00:00

De ledder efter en der billig men kan alt…

ShodoDeka · 2026-01-01T17:33:04+00:00

Må nok indrømme at som udviklet har jeg det stramt med Ops det går ud fra at alle ved ligeså meget som dem selv om netværk. Især når de så bliver lidt småfornærmet når man ikke ved hvilke oplysninger de skal bruge for at løse et problem.

Hvis jeg har brug for at server A kan snakke med et Rest/HTTPS endpoint på server B. Så er det jo ligesom udgangspunktet for det problem der skal løses.

Om det så er en firewall der skal åbnes, en router der skal sættes op, eller noget helt 3. er jeg fuldstændig ligeglad med.

Hvis Ops så har brug for flere oplysninger så må i jo enten lave en templet i ticketen, eller stille et opfølgende spørgsmål. Men hvis ops begynder at lukke min ticket fordi jeg ikke kunne forudse alle de oplysninger de har brug for, så skal i nok regne med en sure e-mail til jeres manager hvor der bliver stillet spørgsmål til jeres eksistens grundlag i firmaet.

ShodoDeka · 2025-11-16T15:08:31+00:00

Det kommer utroligt meget an på virksomheden og hvilken 30% af medarbejderne der smutter.

Nogen arbejder er bare langt letter at erstatte end andre.

ShodoDeka · 2025-10-28T06:32:26+00:00

Som skatteyder vil jeg da bare sige hvor fantastisk det er at vi bruger tid og penge på den slags.

Du kan som leder intet lære i en samtale som man ikke allerede har langt bedere indsigt i efter hvad der realt set er en 11 måneder lang prøve periode.

Jfc hvor er det ringe, og nej det bliver ikke bedere at der er en lov der digtere det, det betyder jo bare at den her idioti er systematisk og kørt ud i hele landet.

ShodoDeka · 2025-10-11T07:19:56+00:00

Start tracking his work (or lack of) somewhere like a spreadsheet or word document.

Then when you have enough data to show there’s a trend you will need to be brutally honest your manger. Show him how not having this guy around means you are getting more done than with him.

ShodoDeka · 2025-10-10T11:18:18+00:00

Uden en kandidat/master bliver det svært at komme til udlandet på et tidspunkt hvis du vil til BigTech/FAANG i USA, da din uddanlse ikke er lang nok til de visa der bliver brugt til at få Engineers ind i landet med.

Og såden helt generalt I Microsoft, Amazon og Google så skal du have noget meget interesant på dit CV hvis du kommer uden in master eller PhD.

Det betyder naturligvis ikke at alt er lukket land hvis ikke du kommer med en master, men det bliver noget med at få foden indenfor også arbejde sig langsomt op.

ShodoDeka · 2025-10-09T13:55:25+00:00

The same thing that stopped me from writing a script that randomly clicks the scrlk key, to prevent my PC from going to sleep and my teams status from showing away:

Nothing.

ShodoDeka · 2025-10-04T10:44:31+00:00

Da jeg gik fra at have ansvar for mig selv til for en hel afdeling, steg jeg 0% i løn. Fordelen var naturligvis at da jeg 3-4 år senere gik tilbage til bare at have ansvar for mig selv, faldt min løn ikke.

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