> but then doesn't that just indicate that modern software development is a joke and the job is not actually hiring developers to do anything difficult?
You just said the quiet part out loud. Most of what we're doing is just slinging CRUD code. Some of the worst developers to work with are the ones who think they're God's gift to programming, because they're the ones who twist the codebase into knots in pursuit of cleverness points. Guess which type leetcode filters for.
Yes, this is true and a real problem. The empire-building types.
My personal favorite non-leetcode interview format is having the candidate spend 2-4 hours building a toy version of your product from scratch. It's hard, relevant, and filters for straightforward code (or you won't finish in time).
You just said the quiet part out loud. Most of what we're doing is just slinging CRUD code. Some of the worst developers to work with are the ones who think they're God's gift to programming, because they're the ones who twist the codebase into knots in pursuit of cleverness points. Guess which type leetcode filters for.