That feeling when it takes you a couple of hours to solve an easy LeetCode problem and then you find out your solution is the naive, unoptimized one. Sigh. I'm never going to get hired.
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FWIW i think a lot of people put too much emphasis on LeetCode as the litmus test for a developer. They’re decent programming exercises mostly for problem solving, but there’s so much more to being a developer than just micro optimization of LC Q’s
You’ll get there, the market is just so tough rn 🫂
100% agree. I hate that it's used so much for assessing candidates in this industry. I've designed and built numerous things and optimized and refactored legacy codebases. I've led features from inception to continual maintenance. I know I can do the work. I can't prove that with leetcode though.
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You’ll get there, the market is just so tough rn 🫂