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tech_ml_an_co t1_istpcr1 wrote

Ohh cs interview processes are so broken, ml is not different. I really don't know why that happened. I just recently had a leetcode interview as a lead ml engineer. I mean seriously, I can guarantee that I was able to solve that when I finished my degree 10 years ago. But today why should I invest my free time into leetcode, instead of learning something useful?

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madbadanddangerous t1_isutti6 wrote

> But today why should I invest my free time into leetcode, instead of learning something useful?

This is it right here, for any CS job. Grinding leetcode and testing interviewees for that is a waste of time for everyone. Certainly at the lead position, but even for IC roles

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fromnighttilldawn t1_isvwn52 wrote

>I really don't know why that happened.

Once upon a time there was a google engineer who wrote a book called the "crack the coding interview" and the rest is just layers upon layers of BS piled on top of the dogma teachings of that book, until red-and-black trees and divide-and-conquer are no different than some relics you find in a cult.

>But today why should I invest my free time into leetcode, instead of learning something useful?

If it is not useful for creating profits, then it is not useful - logic of capitalism 101.

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