Kislay Verma
kislayverma.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2020
Kislay Verma, a software engineer, writes about system design, code organization, microservices, documentation, and team structure.
What HN saysHN commenters link his post arguing competitive programming is useless, citing experienced engineers who must still grind LeetCode before interviews.
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belter · 2022-05-20
If that is the case, why do experienced Software Engineers, have to spend again, weeks on LeetCode as soon as they decide to get back to the Interview circuit?
And why are so many competitive programmers,(not all) terrible Software Engineers?
https://kislayverma.com/organizations/competitive-programming-is-usele…
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/mythbusting-competitive-programming/
arbhassan · 2020-08-16
Some links doesn't work on your website.
https://kislayverma.com/programming/learning-react-in-24-hours/