QuitProgramming

Thank you for sharing this video. I think it really gets at the heart of something a lot of people don't want to hear or are ignorant on. As you say, it's hard enough being actually skilled and deserving so imagine being neither of those and trying to make it.

Your reasoning for why Leetcode is bad is a bit flawed. The reason why it works is because it's correlated with other performance. The fact that a customer don't ask for it before they give you a job doesn't disprove the correlative factor. The fact that people snub it by thinking it's too far removed from reality doesn't make it so either. The fact is that someone who is clever enough to consistently do things like reverse a linked list in one line quickly and correctly will also be able to quickly do less clever things correctly.

Your idea is that only doing the exact thing shows if you are good at it. You are almost implying there are no correlations between skills. If that's what you believe then looking at the research on IQ should clear up that empirically that is not the case. And note I said the research. Not news articles or editorials or blogs or podcasts. The actual scientific literature.

>Your statement here is false. 99% of programming is using skills that are rather unlike the talent you need for leetcode.

Do you have evidence for this claim? Specifically, that the skills and talents that make one good at Leetcode are not correlated and predictive for being a good programmer.

Being part of that 99.999% doesn't seem to be a good life.

Where are the non-FAANG, non-leetcode guarded 120k entry level jobs?

I'm not sure how you are coming to the conclusion that I take no responsibility. The whole point of my post is that I am not good enough. That's a pretty damning criticism of the self. I only blame others in the sense that they highly contributed to me not being able to see that. If all my takeaways were personal, I would have no reason to post this. I think you just don't like how I sound and aren't paying attention to my actual words.

6 figures starting.

>The book How to Design Programs...

I will check this book out.

>Lastly, even though receiving material rewards is nice, re-framing motivation towards contribution rather than receiving can mitigate disappointment in any endeavor in life.

This has always sounded to me like the consolation for those who are not good enough to get what they really want.

>I'll just say it's better to be mediocre at something than to do nothing. A non-FAANG job/tech endeavor will still expose you to a lot of opportunities. You may not immediately be making what you want to make, but over 10 years there's a non-zero chance you'll luck into something bigger. A 20% chance of getting what you want is still better than a 0% chance. In the process you may find something you are actually exceptionally good at. It's much harder to find these things if you're not actively working on something.

This is the sort of thinking that keeps people in their place continuously participating in the rat race hoping that one day they'll make their break. For most people, it's much closer to delusional hope than a real path to success.

I think the "you need to love what you do to be successful" is just a fallacy that became a meme. If it were true a much higher percentage of people would be well respected and successful artists, for example. In our field, more coders would be in FAANG or the next John Carmack. This meme needs to die, honestly.

Furthermore, it's easy to be passionate about things that you are good at. Being good at something means constantly getting positive feedback. So then the question becomes- Are people who are passionate the ones who become good at things or are people who are good at things become passionate them? The reality is you can find cases where people hate the things they are good at and like the things they are bad at. Just proves this idea of yours is false.

I don't think it's for you or anyone else to determine what the appropriate take away from something is unless I made a purely a logical error. The person mentioned a variety of points and the most unique and helpful one was the one on social skills. Many other people have suggested all the other points the author has mentioned already and I have considered them.

I am interested in your story as well though. I am not autistic, but I think I have the similar defects that could be resolved with similar solutions. Could you give me an example of such an institution?

I'm saying the skill set and talent that allows one to be good at Leetcode and on the job programming are correlated and I am lacking in both.

Do you have specific examples of jobs like that that pay on the latter end of that spectrum?

Solutions engineer also sounds interesting. Thank you for mentioning it.

Please share some specific examples.

They cost money rather than generate money.