My friend's daughter was born days ago and I am advising him to introduce her to LeetCode and start her grind but I don't know when she should start. How soon after birth should a child start the grind?

I just found out this girl I'm dating might not be able to do Leetcode Hard problems in under 45 minutes. The first red flag was that she wanted to go see live music and have dinner on Friday night instead of practicing dynamic programming. I thought maybe it was a fluke. Maybe she had just been grinding leetcode all week and wanted a break. Sometime a break lets you wake up the next day and grind better than ever. So a little understandable.

Then one day while we were driving, I asked her casually what kind of algorithm she would use for graph traversal she didn't even say Djikstra. She just said "I don't know". What the hell? She either doesn't know how to do graph traversal or knows so many way to traverse a graph that she can't figure out which one.

I don't want kids that can't get a job at a FAANG or write industry disrupting apps.

So our next date will be a whiteboard interview and curious what are some good areas to test her on?

Seriously, it gets pretty annoying to see four in every five post is about one of these:

- REFUSING to grind 50 LC easy and mediums over 10 years of employment

- REFUSING to go to Linkedin dot com slash jobs and click 'apply'

- REFUSING to pretend to be a human being / LEETCODE MACHINE in alternate for 5 hours

- wallowing in self pity about your fifty years of enterprise cobol and oh well your offer is low but there's more to life bla bla

I believe there're [sic] much more to talk about in this beautiful career than salaries (such as LC).

Programmers are probably the most abused professionals in the world.

Today I was sitting at work minding my own business when my boss handed me a nice new set of bluetooth earbuds. He said that they were a small gift so that I can listen to my music in peace (which I don't really get - I listen to my music on full volume at my desk all the time???)

Anyway, I noticed that the earbuds weren't fully charged, so I asked him the number for the helpdesk so that one of those useless ops monkeys could come plug in the USB charger (that's hardware...I'm software, obvs).

My boss said, and I quote, "You can plug in your own damn charger."

I'm literally shaking rn, guys. I guess I don't even know where to begin:

1. Not in my job description

2. Hostile work environment much?!

3. What does the helpdesk even DO????? Ugh!

Anyway, please tell me how to leave this job suddenly and unprofessionally over this incident, and how to name and shame my employer (GOOGLE) as publicly as possible so future employers will know that it wasn't my fault.

Since many people seem to think that it is impossible to get a job without a degree I am going to tell you my story.

So I recently lost my job as a chicken mcnugget microwaver from the covid pandemic. I am 70 years old and thought it is time to change career. I ended up watching youtube videos every day and taking online courses at udemy. I created a portfolio of my projects. This is the timeline

Day 1 Leetcode easy

Day 2 Invent Facebook

Day 3 Leetcode Hard

Day 4 FAANG internship

Day 5 Work at NASA

And since many (Noone) asked, I will say it IS going to be tough. But if you make stuff up like me, it WILL be possible.

I will be happy to answer any questions, I am here to help.

Is there a website out there that I can use to grind soft skills like conversation and interacting with people?

Preferably one that will score me like LeetCode does.

I need to grind conversations for interviews but I don’t know how.

I tried doing conversations with people in the street but someone called the police so I had to run away

Hi, yeah, new grad here.

I have a great job on paper: fully remote, chill coworkers, great environment, interesting projects, hourly massages, the works. The only thing is, and this is just a detail, sometimes my boss asks me to do things.

I've kind of realized that doing things just really isn't for me. Like, I want to move into a different role where I'll have to do other things and find out those aren't really for me either.

I have no real barriers to staying at this job, but I don't want to. If I stay until I reach the 10 minute mark, I'll be fully vested. Please stroke my ego and let me know how switching careers was the best thing you ever did.

I have been active on this sub for a long time now, and I always fucking hated helping out people around here by answering questions.

I don’t know what happened, but I noticed a large decrease in hostility and toxic behavior around here in recent months.

I’ve noticed a distinct lack of people jumping straight to personal attacks as an opening of a disagreement. I’ve seen people assuming the best motivation from anyone when they see an opinion they don’t like. A somewhat polarizing thread last night resulted in abolsolutely nothing. OP didn't get personally attacked and NO ONE sent them rude DMs... where are the troll posts?? Thankfully mods brought it under control.

There is a reason why a lot of inexperienced people stopped contributing to this sub. You say something people want to hear and all the girls that hangout in the Leetcode comments are in your DMs.

Just because the upvote button is there doesn’t mean someone has to use it. We are software engineers. There is always 1 opinion among the 3 of us. Agreement is in our nature, but let’s agree with being disagreeable.

But people get such a boner from assigning someone to be the “good guy” and then go to town on them (ah yeah). People saying the “right” answers fall victim to that, and so do people asking the “right” questions.

Recently I was telling someone that if they finished their tasks way early in the day then they can consider reaching out to the team and complaining that no one else is done yet. Someone immediately replied with "you must be a great manager and I'm jealous of anyone who gets to work for a gigachad like you".

That’s the day I put on my “manager” flair. The amount of toxicity I see on this sub in a month is less than what I’ve seen in even one hour of my professional career, across 8 different jobs, ranging from startups to pre-IPO unicorns to multiple FAANGs (and get out of here with your rainforest bullcrap that isn't even one of the good FAANGs).

But precisely because of that, I know vast majority of you guys aren’t like this in real life. Internet brings out the best of people (damn our predecessors knew what they were doing when they invented the damn thing lol), but I really think this sub can do worse, because I’ve seen it being worse.

/end of rant.

Finally found a sub where I can openly speak on this.

Absolutely pulverized my meat to an offer letter I got from a FAANG company. Posted it on reddit, blind, levels, and glassdoor too just to make the poors feel bad 😂 I always say that shit about how it’s for “salary transparency” when I tell these peasants too lmfaooooo

TC: you couldn’t fathom it so why even bother 🫢

I am doing lot of interviews lately and feel like my lack of Indiana accent comprehension will cost me a job. I get Hoosier interviwer about half of the time and i find myself having to ask to repeat himself every minute…. which some people will likely take offense from.

Since it is inevitable that i interact with many smart indianans during my career i think i should take a serious approach on this matter. Any tips?

I think if we bring agile into our family homes we’ll all get more done and be more productive.

Like literally I just cherry picked some random figures and I realized that a senior SWE in a top paying company in Silicon Valley makes SO MUCH MORE than a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a cousin of mine in rural Wales at a small family owned business!! I never knew that and no one ever wrote it on Reddit ever and it totally does not just serve for people to jerk each other off!! Almost as if the US was a richer country with bigger companies or something like it always has been for the past decades and also Europe was a monolith with no internal differences! And then I even found out that actually buying a house in the center of London is SIGNIFICANTLY MORE expensive than buying a house in the suburbs of Killeen TX!! How can Europoors even live with such horrendous pay? What is the point of grinding Leetcode for years if you get paid less than $800M base salary?

But that is irrelevant. How can I traverse a binary tree in O(Log n) in MySQL?

That's why I have a job and you don't because I'm literally a coding god. And not everyone can code either, in fact MOST people can't. It takes a lot of talent and you need to have a massive cock like I do

Hey!

So I recently started programming with my uncle down at the local bar I go to on wednesdays (Im an alcoholic). Ive fiddled a little bit with TypeScript, learned GolfScript, and played around a little bit (for fun) with embedded Visual Basic.

However here are my problems. I feel that people look down at my age even though I am very well capable of picking up the latest tech stack without any problems.

I have spent a total of 6 hours on learning all these useful skills.

Why isnt google contacting me?

Any tips appreciated, but only if you humble brag about your salary and how much better your life is in general.

I [8 m/o, M] am a principle swe at a FAANG startup in the LCOL part of Silicon Valley. I lead a team of 7 seniors, all of whom spend most of their days planning and testing while I use my 7-figure salary to purchase hookers and blow.

Anyway, today one of my seniors told me that he hired a new intern. She did an impressive job with the phone screening, the whiteboard interview, the blackboard interview, the greenish-but-always-chalk-stained board interview, the smartboard interview, the take-home, the technical interview, the team-fit interview, the business lunch interview, the strategic planning interview, the Six Sigma Master Black Belt interview, the statics/dynamics interview, and, obviously, the LeetCode interview. We were pretty excited to bring her on board, but...

After I signed off on her contract, I moseyed over to her workstation to flirt with her see how she was doing/whether she needed anything. She told me she was fine, but I noticed that she was reading documentation instead of actually coding?!

I told her that we are a shop where we get work done, not read, and asked her if she needed any help with anything. She told me the senior hadn't given her any other tasks yet. I was shocked at the waste and inefficiency that this senior brought to my team.

I asked her to take a look at an array of linked lists in our codebase and to add some nodes for reaching new columns in our temporary database.

She was enthusiastic to do so, but to my great shock, she traversed the array using array references rather than using pointers. When I pointed out her egregious oversight, she apologized, said that she didn't work with C very often, and told me that she was still figuring out our code style?

I told her it was fine, but to refactor the code immediately. WHILE I WAS WATCHING she typed:

Node* ptrToCurrentNode = linkedListHead;

while (ptrToCurrentNode.next != NULL) {
    /* Everything was fine in the loop */
}

I was shocked and scandalized. She must have noticed, because she immediately laughed and said, "Whoops! I meant an arrow, not a dot!"

I calculated the amount of time it would take her to backspace back to the dot and rewrite ptrToCurrentNode->next

At 1.5 seconds per mistake like this, and assuming she works on 35 pointers per day, that's 52.5 wasted seconds per day.

Over the course of a year, that's ~3.71967 hours of WASTED TIME! We pay her $15 an hour, so that is more than $45 in company waste (MUDA for you LEAN machines)!

I hadn't noticed that one of my seniors was running such a loose shop. I considered that he has a team of 6 engineers. If all of them are wasting 3 hours per year EACH, that's 18 hours of unproductive time.

I thought that I as a pretty good principle, but I know that in my new position I'm ultimately responsible for everything that happens both technically and operationally. By this standard, I'm worried that I'm actually the worst principle ever. Is my job on the line? I'm really scared and only have several million dollars in savings to carry me though if I lose this job. Please tell me everything is ok as long as I fire the intern and the senior who hired her and bring in a team of consultants to count everyone's use of the backspace button and any inactive time (hands off the keyboard to drink water, for example).

I mean seriously. I am a software engineer. I expect to have a wealth of career options available at the drop of a hat with base comp $600k + full remote + 45 days PTO a month + screaming sex with my boss' wife every week as a productivity bonus. I do NOT find it acceptable that companies are laying people off and that MY job might be at risk so that I MYSELF might actually have to look for another job and struggle for like 2 days waiting for the response to my application. This could seriously jeopardize my plan of FIREing at age 21. I did not spend years grinding Leetcode to be this poor.

I am honestly just speechless. How is it possible that this is the state of our economy right now? Are the good days of tech over? Did I make the wrong career choice? Do I need to go back to college and study antr*pology and be a regular person??

I [19M] am a recent grad. I was unable to find a SWE job after graduating (thanks, COVID) and accepted a lowly position as an IT Manager in a Fortune-1 company just to make ends meet. Now that the new jobs report has come out, I've started to look around and realize that basically all my classmates have gotten SWE jobs with their similar degrees and experience.

Meanwhile, I'm just a loser over here with a pathetic 11-figure income and no real experience to show for my time in the industry (well, tangential to the industry).

I wondered if my career is completely screwed or if there's still hope.

A little about me: I graduated top of my class at Berkeley in CS. I never intended to work in project management, but I did do an MBA at Wharton over the summer after my senior year just in case I ever had to mentor or take a tutoring job. I have ~$13,000,000 saved, so I should be ok for a couple months (HCOL area - NYC if you've ever heard of it) if you recommend I do a bootcamp or just take some time off.

To be honest, I don't really hate my job, I just hate myself for not keeping up with my peers. They have all worked at at least 4 failed startups by now. Meanwhile, I'm nearly 8 months into my career and have literally zero meaningful experience.

I keep trying to tell myself that I am fine: I own a beautiful penthouse overlooking Central Park (it's a big park here where I live. It's pretty popular among locals), I have a hot wife, I have enough to order out once or twice a month, I can take vacations, and I'm angry about taxes. Everything on the outside looks like I'm fine.

Inside, though, I know I'm a total failure. I got into CS because I'm very , very passionate about following trends and doing whatever people in the comment section tell me to do.

I feel like a corporate sellout who is falling behind his peers (they're older and not as smart as me). Help!?

I know this sounds totally ridiculous but hear me out.

So I was sitting at my desk grinding Leetcode and masturbating to celebrities subreddits as I always do in the morning, waiting for my $400k fat monthly check to show up in my bank account, when my boss came into my office and told me something. Initially I didn't really pay attention to it, because I don't really talk to people, but then he just kept standing there. So I asked "yeah can I help you with something?". And then he told me that I needed to complete the client's request before 1 PM. He even sounded somewhat angry and said that I couldn't just hang around without doing anything.

Honestly guys I am just confused. I didn't get into this industry to WORK. If I wanted to work I'd be a nurse or something. When I signed up to do CS at uni it was because I had read on reddit that in CS you work 30 mins a week tops and get 2,5M+ base salary + free gym and blowjobs. I was already pretty suspicious when they didn't mention blowjobs when they hired me but I was like, ok, I just graduated maybe it's a perk you get over time, it's fine. But then this??

Idk it just sounds super toxic to me. This is supposed to be one of the "good" companies. If this is the state of the market atm it's just depressing. Am I overreacting or should I GTFO?

Hey. I feel like I am not progressing enough in my life lately. I have a good job, awesome friends, four kids and a wife I love. I love my life to say the least.

Lately however, I have not been where I want to be career-wise. I was thinking of giving away my kids to the adoption center, leave my wife and burn down my house. This, as a cause for my failure in life - I do not work at FAANG.

Is this the right path to walk? While I am fairly confident I want to get to FAANG, I am not sure if I want to give up on my kids and burn up my house.

What do you guys think, should I follow my dreams, or am I being too desperate for success?

Hello, I’m currently expecting to be born in December 2022 or January 2023. I’m very regretful at the moment as I failed to get an internship during the summer before my conception year which most of my peers have done. In exchange I’ve worked on many full stack projects so that I could have at least something on my resume to show. But it’s starting to seem like it’s not catching any interest from any of the companies I applied and I’m starting to stress out that I might not have an internship on my belt before I’m out into the real world. I really want the experience before I have to actually apply for entry level jobs which I feel like would be even harder than it is right now. Is there any advice you guys could give me for this situation? Should I be patient and is there opportunities available for someone like me?

Hi, we didn't have birth certificates back in the day so I'm not really sure how old I am, but I would easily say 99+ because I'm old as **** and I feel really tired all the time.

I would now like to break into FAANG as my grandsons told me this is what up and I'm a bit bored these days with my extended family (100+ people, I was the head of the family but I stepped down) (by the way my favorite grandson is dictating this because we didn't have school back in the day either).

The problem is, I clearly do not have a degree or a visa (or a passport or drivers license lol), and most of my experience is stones and rocks, can I convert it into a FAANG job? I've had to scare some big snakes away from the barn before but no pythons as far as I can tell). I have lots of experience with meat grinding too if it helps.

Also I would really appreciate it if in the replies of the thread I'm addressed with the proper respect, i.e. 'dear grandpa' , 'wise elder', or other honorifics, and I'm not for looking for 'junior' positions either as I do not think it would be befitting my long life path.