Confirmation

Reading online, you might get the impression that companies are out to get us, asking leetcode hards and candidates are failing with perfect interview performance. This happens in some cases. But, for the average candidate who prepared for one month, got some questions they saw before and smoothly got an offer, they will never make a post. Remember that just like how people review restaurants only when they got some bad food, the experience people tend to share will be on the extreme ends. Either they got the hardest questions and interviewer was racist, or they got ghosted etc. This forum and many others exists in a bubble. Normal people do not meet online and discuss programming and interviews in such depth. I have many friends in real life who never post on reddit and do some basic leetcode preparation and get good offers from top companies. We don’t need to be destroying our health to hit 300 solved problems. Just a reminder to myself and others that career is a marathon and we need to study sustainably. Let’s not think every post in here is representative of the average interview experience.