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Its hard to relate to a lifetime employment 'tenure' when us in the private sector have to deal with leet code interviews and other countless indignities in the

Its hard to relate to a lifetime employment 'tenure' when us in the private sector have to deal with leet code interviews and other countless indignities in the knife fight employment cycle every 1-3 years for the rest of our careers.. if we are lucky

firesteelrain 2y ago
Skip the LeetCode interviews/stop doing them and eventually they will go away But they will probably come up with something else sadly
- gaws 2y ago
  > Skip the LeetCode interviews/stop doing them and eventually they will go away That is not an option in this environment; too many companies use that as the gatekeeper. From a company's point of view, if someone refuses to take the test, that's okay because there are hundreds of other applications who will gladly do it.
  - firesteelrain 2y ago
    I have managed to avoid them in my 20 years in industry. I once interviewed and they wanted me to do a take home coding exercise to build a CI/CD system in Python (with a scheduler). No one does that - we use GitLab, Bamboo, Jenkins, etc. Not a LeetCode example but my point is the coding exercises are silly. (Plus Activision was apparently using Perforce at the time and not git)
    - gaws 2y ago
      > I once interviewed for Activision How long ago was that?
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loudmax 2y ago
Is this 1-3 year employment cycle due to working at startups and they're going out of business, or is this jumping ship for a pay raise? If it's the latter, you don't have to switch jobs every 1-3 years, you can find a stable company and stick with them for the long haul. You may not get paid as well as the job hoppers, but you're probably making considerably more money then you would in academia, even tenured.
- gaws 2y ago
  > you can find a stable company and stick with them for the long haul. Many "stable" companies are still laying people off. There aren't as many companies one can "stick with for the long haul" as there used to be.

firesteelrain 2y ago

Skip the LeetCode interviews/stop doing them and eventually they will go away But they will probably come up with something else sadly

gaws 2y ago
> Skip the LeetCode interviews/stop doing them and eventually they will go away That is not an option in this environment; too many companies use that as the gatekeeper. From a company's point of view, if someone refuses to take the test, that's okay because there are hundreds of other applications who will gladly do it.
- firesteelrain 2y ago
  I have managed to avoid them in my 20 years in industry. I once interviewed and they wanted me to do a take home coding exercise to build a CI/CD system in Python (with a scheduler). No one does that - we use GitLab, Bamboo, Jenkins, etc. Not a LeetCode example but my point is the coding exercises are silly. (Plus Activision was apparently using Perforce at the time and not git)
  - gaws 2y ago
    > I once interviewed for Activision How long ago was that?
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loudmax 2y ago

Is this 1-3 year employment cycle due to working at startups and they're going out of business, or is this jumping ship for a pay raise? If it's the latter, you don't have to switch jobs every 1-3 years, you can find a stable company and stick with them for the long haul. You may not get paid as well as the job hoppers, but you're probably making considerably more money then you would in academia, even tenured.

gaws 2y ago
> you can find a stable company and stick with them for the long haul. Many "stable" companies are still laying people off. There aren't as many companies one can "stick with for the long haul" as there used to be.