> Ability/commitment to work on something that may not be that intrinsically motivating, in the context of getting/maintaining a certain type of job.
I remember a blog post which was ranting about the current culture at trendy big tech companies (has since been deleted [0], probably the author still wanted a career at such a company) in which a quote resonated with me a lot: 'we're not problem solvers, we're problem endurers'.
Someone solving hundreds of leetcode problems to prepare for an interview just signaled that they are willing do do basically any tedious piece of work you throw at them.
I remember a blog post which was ranting about the current culture at trendy big tech companies (has since been deleted [0], probably the author still wanted a career at such a company) in which a quote resonated with me a lot: 'we're not problem solvers, we're problem endurers'.
Someone solving hundreds of leetcode problems to prepare for an interview just signaled that they are willing do do basically any tedious piece of work you throw at them.
EDIT: [0] Found it: https://web.archive.org/web/20160308032127/https://medium.co...