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"Do none of them realize how insane it is that you need to spend thousands of hours on whatever the hell LeetCode is, plus go through 10+ interviews, just to land a software job? And for what? The pay isn't even that great when you factor in the sheer time sunk into pursuing it."
"I'm a software engineer and I'm casually taking a pulse on the job market right now. I've been preparing for interviews (leetcode, system design) for a few months now. However, I can't even get an interview with 3 YoE and a masters."
"No amount of LeetCode is going to give you an advantage over the guy who they like more. This shit is not a meritocracy any more. It's about who you know and how you are perceived. The LinkedIn slop poster has better odds than the guy who regularly contributes to the linux kernel."
"all CS engineer job content online that gets spammed to me by the reddit algorithm is about learning new languages / practicing leetcode / etc. in your free time. And if you aren't constantly doing stuff like that then you are a POS."