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		giantg2 on Jan 5, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Leetcode has taught me that I'm a bad engineer At a big company it's all about politics and optics. It doesn't matter what you actually accomplish, only what the people in power think of you and think you accomplished.

vanusa on Jan 5, 2022 [–]

Which is part of the reason why the LC process exists -- to prop up the illusion that there's some kind of objective skill measurement happening.

And thereby distract us from the very central fact you have articulated.

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