It is fascinating to me that people write books and articles on why "leetcode is harmful", just to have a justification for avoiding the hard work. It really makes me giggle. Considering that, if you are new to coding challenges, solving a hard leetcode problem can take up to or take more time, as it needs to write an article, I have to giggle even more. And it just shows me that the system works as intended in filtering out the lazy kind of people. Sorry for all the giggling but it is just so funny to me.
You sound like you haven’t been interviewing/interviewed recently.
Knowing your DSA is one thing: the task isn’t: “let’s write some code to balance this tree”
It’s the extremely cringy “John has 40 watermelons that he needs to take to Mars” style problems
If you only need to demo your understanding of the undergrad level DSA, that’s fine. But if people have to exclusively spend 3 months preparing for LC in particular that’s just madness
And in India, people are just taking this to new heights with people beginning to no-life with LC for 3 *YEARS* and skipping everything else
I would also argue that science sucks in it's current state as well. It's all about Hirsch-Index. Looking as scientific and complicated as possible, so other scientist want to quote you and the Hirsch-Index rises. Also if numbers don't fit, they will be made fit. Fake or not doesn't really matter because no one will ever read it anyways. See the auto generating tools for papers and positive submission of them. This is by all means not the case for all scientist. There are lots of good, talented people there. But they get overshadowed by the previous mentioned.
Matt and his team are doing such a great job.The visuals are great and the music is alway on point! Also, when I'm stressed out, I can watch an episode and my mind calms down again. Thank you guys!
