Suquili 🦎 on Nostr: yes the leetcode shit drives me mad. there’s a near-insurmountable wall of grinding ...

yes the leetcode shit drives me mad. there’s a near-insurmountable wall of grinding I have to do just to get my foot in the door. i basically gave up.
And I had no internships in college because I lacked soft skills at the time, so I have zero momentum. It’s the classic dilemma that I need work experience to get a job but I need a job to get work experience. my degree is basically worthless because like you say the major got hyped up as a big new moneymaker so everyone jumped aboard. Stupid women and browns thought they could get a piece of that pie with zero understanding or even INTEREST in programming. So they dumbed the shit down to keep them in and sell more degrees. Meanwhile the companies don’t want to invest in training because that costs money.

It’s all unfair to people like me who wanted to go into this field since middle school. My fault though because halfway through I decided my career wasn’t everything to me and stopped blindly pursuing knowledge for knowledge’s sake. The white guys who made it in the field were the students who could grind leetcodes and learn random APIs in their spare time. I can’t do that, I need a paycheck to motivate me. But everyone in college told me that money wasn’t a noble enough motivation and I needed to have a religious commitment to my career and sperg on about Girls Who Code on Linkedin. But I could never do that because I’m a terrible liar. So here I am making pennies waiting tables with my “useless degree” lmao. An ironic fate.