noahdavis88Aug 28, 2026
Hot take, LC grinding is the last thing companies like OpenAI should still be gatekeeping on
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Counterpoint, the coding rounds are still the best signal they have for raw problem solving even if the day to day looks different.
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To be fair the algo rounds do weed out people who can't reason at all, AI tools don't help if you don't understand what you're asking for.
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Sorry about the onsite. Which round got you, the graph one or the tree one?
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The disconnect is real but companies move slow, don't expect this to change anytime soon tbh.
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Honestly feel this. Prepped LC hards for a month for a role that's 90 percent prompt engineering now.
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100 percent agree, feels like the whole industry needs to rethink what signal actually matters now.
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