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LC is only popular because most managers are bad at their jobs

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Think of all the managers you had, were most of them good? In the collective experience I know of myself and others I know, most managers are bad at their jobs. And one way this shows is in their unre

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Think of all the managers you had, were most of them good? In the collective experience I know of myself and others I know, most managers are bad at their jobs. And one way this shows is in their unrealistic interview practices, giving candidates questions that they would never do on the job. They are uncreative and shamelessly reuse leetcode questions. Edit: My solution is a 1h feature implementation or bug fix, on an open source repository, running in a cloud ide.

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