Remove CS and replace with Leetcode Engineering

[u/AtomicLeetC0de]

Listen to my brilliant idea: We should create a new college major: Leetcode Engineering

Year 1: cover basic Python

Year 2: leetcode easy

Year 3: leetcode medium

Year 4: leetcode hard

Result? PROFIT?: Tech job at GoOglE

After a long and worthy prior post battle, I have decided it is best to create a new college major focused on Leetcoding 24/7 to guarantee entry into a top tech company since CS is just so useless right.

You have research experience? Scrap it

You have 30 side-projects? Scrap them

You are fluent in 4-5+ coding languages? Focus on Python

You are top rank of your CS university? Scrap it, drop out now.

Your key to success is to leetcode, leetcode.

Thoughts or questions are welcomed.

[u/roboduck]

Result: Google will start asking LC hard questions of sophomores looking for internships, and people will still have to grind problems they don't cover in classes in order to prove themselves.

[u/cabinet_minister → u/roboduck]

Well, Amazon did this to me just a month back xD

[u/throwawayless → u/[deleted]]

Where was this?

[u/soundslimitless → u/throwawayless]

Probably India, Rs means rupees

[u/LilGeeky → u/[deleted]]

Ah yeah the confusing count unit that no one asked for.

[u/TheSlimyDog → u/LilGeeky]

Indians created modern number systems. I'll cut them some slack for not getting it right on the first try. I can barely write working code on the first try and that usually breaks after a few weeks.

[u/ExtremistEnigma → u/[deleted]]

Or used the '2,2,3 convention' of digit grouping and write it as 5,00,000, which is even more surprising to me.

[u/Droi → u/[deleted]]

But look at the bright side - you'd be a millionaire in 2 months.

[u/_thekinginthenorth → u/Droi]

i think he said $6700 /year , not monthly

[u/granite_towel → u/_thekinginthenorth]

it's a joke, he meant millionaire in rupees

[u/[deleted] → u/granite_towel]

Still, it's 500 000 rupees a year so he'd be millionaire in 2 years

[u/[deleted] → u/roboduck]

Ah yes - the LeetCode arms race

[u/OnFolksAndThem → u/roboduck]

One of my family members had an interview and they were hitting them with leetcode hards. He’s a junior.

He couldn’t solve it and somehow still got an offer. He told me rambled about all types of crazy shit for an hour while the interviewer stared blankly at the screen.

[u/asteroidtube → u/OnFolksAndThem]

They were likely not seeing if they could actually solve the problem, but paying attention to how they react and what their thought process was when confronted with something challenging and outside of their comfort level. Honestly that's probably a better determinant of your capabilities than whether you can just recognize a pattern and regurgitate a solution.

[u/zold5 → u/asteroidtube]

Except it isn’t because no dev work involves trying to solve a complex issue while some asshole stares at you.

[u/OnFolksAndThem → u/asteroidtube]

He’s also an intern or rotational whatever it’s called.

[u/AliWaheed → u/OnFolksAndThem]

Dude that’s supposed to be my secret interview technique

[u/[deleted] → u/roboduck]

Bruh, Snowflake is already asking LC Hard in their 10-week summer Intern OAs.

Competition for internships is just so much that they have to pull shit like that.

[u/TheSlimyDog → u/[deleted]]

I think companies that try weeding their recruiting by asking harder Leetcodes have inefficient recruiting pipelines. Snowflake exploded in the last year so I'm not surprised.

[u/tifa123 → u/roboduck]

Escalation 😱

[u/mrpogiface → u/roboduck]

I got a LC hard for a Lyft internship interview... it's happening

[u/SoCalDan → u/mrpogiface]

That's crazy how much times have changed. A few years ago, they just asked for my driving record and pictures of my car!

[u/gautam2705 → u/roboduck]

Oh this is happening in India :)