[ssangani]

Leetcode is now deeply embedded as part of dev interviews. In current market there are 300-800+ applications for any given dev role. You gonna have to play this game if you are looking to go back into corporate.

This is a good study plan to follow if you want to get in shape for dev interviews: https://www.techinterviewhandbook.org/coding-interview-study...

[bfrog]

Leetcode tells you little to nothing about an individual’s actual skill set? I wouldn’t work for a place that required this sort of bs? Imagine if for every job as a carpenter you need to show you can cut wood properly. It’s fucking ridiculous.

You don’t show that you can cut wood, you show you can build things with a portfolio of work. Like every other damn profession.

[ssangani]

It doesn't matter. Maybe 1/100 company doesn't ask DS&A questions these days.

Most corporate dev jobs are dull. Most of the codebase is mostly for loops. There's no relevance to day-to-day job. But these jobs pay well because of which competition is high. So interviewers are trained to measure as many signals as possible. If it's big tech company then there would be 7+ rounds instead of usual 5 to measure more signals.

No one cares what you built at startup either. There's lot of red tape in corporate. Many good ideas get blocked or shut down because of politics. Chances of building something are slim if not hired in a greenfield project.