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yet during interviews you're expected to write 50 lines or 100 lines of code with tricky algorithms under pressure in 30-45 minutes from design to implementation to unit tests and corner case considerations, also you must keep talking while coding with your interviewer so you behave like a team player and is collaborating with your future team mate on the fly.

all these have nothing to do with real life coding, it's more like a coding monkey stress test to me, you can only perform well by doing daily leetcode for months, it's geared towards young people who has those times to practice.

I recall the days I spent two weeks to add 50 lines of code to linux kernel, 95% of the time was to figure out how that kernel subsystem works and where to hook the code, but that matters 0 to nowadays FAANG interview process, the 5% of time for 50 lines code is all that matters.



Real world programming and interview programming are like 2 different disciplines at this point.


It's so sad and also terrifying when people call this real world programming.




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