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		jmspring on Feb 11, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Becoming a dungeon master for an interview The correlation doesn't exist. A large segment of the Leetcode-uber-alles practitioners are also the ones that are obsessed with total compensation as the ultimate measure. It was a mistake by google and others to focus purely on this , but we are where we are. Many of the leetcode fanatics can't deal with real world issues in software or operations.

lupire on Feb 12, 2024 [–]

These companies look for people who write software to handle real-world issues on software and operations.

The mistake is in refusing to have a separate job and hiring rubric for sysadmins

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