I never really bought in to the anti-Leetcode crowd’s sentiment that it’s irrelevant. It has always mattered as a competitive edge, against other job candidates if you’re an employee or the competition of you’re a company. It only looked irrelevant because opportunities were everywhere during ZIRP, but good times never last.

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ponector 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It mattered to pass through the interview, but not for the job itself. With all leetcode geniuses in Microsoft why Teams and Windows are so shitty?

	▲	majewsky 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Because they are only allowed to review what the LLM has come up with.

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raw_anon_1111 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Most developers work at banks, insurance companies and other “enterprise” jobs. Even most developers at BigTech and who are working “at scale” are building on top of scalable infrastructure and aren’t worrying about reversing a btree on a whiteboard.

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AdamN 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Agree that the whiteboard thing is often not applicable but it's so nice when a developer has efficient code if only because it indicates that they know what's going on and also that there are fewer bugs and other bottlenecks in the system.

	▲	raw_anon_1111 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Those bugs don’t come from using the wrong algorithm, they come from not understanding the business case of what you’re writing. Most performance issues in the real world for most cases don’t have anything to do with the code. It’s networking, databases, etc. Your login isn’t slow because the developer couldn’t do leetcode

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