I think people should get paid for the time they spend commuting too and from work.

Companies would change their tune on WFH real quick if that were the case.

You just made sure only people who can afford to live near work are hired.

This take feels like it’s being made in bad faith.

Person 1 - childless, has a flat in the city.

Person 2 - couple kids, needs more space, lives 45 minutes from work

Why should person 2 be at a disadvantage?

I don't think we should incentivize people to have longer commutes

That "incentive" already exists in the form of cheaper housing the further away you go.

I agree that commuting should be considered as part of "work", but I always took into account commute time when considering job opportunities. The pay obviously never had an explicit "commute" line, but my math was "this job + this commute for this pay". Figure if it's worth it or not.

I don't think people should be doing unpaid labor. What's the win-win?

Salaried employees are already paid for their labour, I'm not paid hour by hour.

If I work one extra hour, was that unpaid and my employer stealing from me? If I work one hour less, is that me stealing from my employer? No on both counts in my opinion.

When picking a job I consider a commute a cost already and would need to be compensated for it in the form of higher pay.

But I don't think we should artificially stack the deck in favour of people who live close to work, that just adds a totally fake and unneeded item to the long list of advantages e.g. non parents have over parents who need a bigger house or access to schools.

Agreed, which is why all salaried positions allow you to leave work at any time, as long as your work is done for the day.

Heh, "all". Fun fact: you don't know "all".

That was a joke. The percentage of salary positions that allow this rounds to 0.

That surely already is the case. I pay more for rent to live closer to work. People who live further away don't.

If you want to get paid more, negotiate it.

Seems like a non issue to me.

You can get paid for that. You just need to negotiate it with your employer. It’s not easy, specially if they have other candidates.

"It's not easy"... "Nearly impossible" is another word for it.

The Efficient Market Hypothesis is an approximation at best, and fails hard at labor issues.

Employee salaries don't fluctuate continuously. In most cases, labor loading - the number of warm bodies paid to be there 9-5 - can't fluctuate much, quickly (with the exception of catastrophic business failure). Salaries and wages almost never go downwards for employees already hired. Etc.

The most ironic part is that AI skills won't really help you with job security.

You touched on some of the reasons; it doesn't take much skill to call an API, the technology is in a period of rapid evolution, etc.

And now with almost every company trying to adopt "AI" there is no shortage of people who can put AI experience on their resume and make a genuine case for it.

Any overlap between interview skills and job performance is a coincidence.

You have to accept this on a visceral level.

Alternatively, remember that the reason the company is making you jump through these hoops is that there are many other candidates who are equally qualified.

Competent people do pass the filter, but what Leetcode interviews do filter out are people with a shred of creativity who just won't submit themselves to the drudgery of studying useless crap for an interview – the kind of people who need purpose to always align with work or part of them dies. Avoiding these people is great for a company that's all about boosting it's ad revenue, and also great for the applicant who dodged a bullet.

I get it but it's sort of a strange thing to ask people to accept no?

like asking people to accept that 1+1=3. or that the day after Monday is Thursday. maybe that's the real function of these hoops -- selecting people who are good at doublethink

I wouldn't say it's as clear cut as that. One can make a reasonable argument for why the leetcode grind is the lesser evil.

If the goal is to keep your motivation up, you have to find some joy in the activity itself.

If solving leetcode is the only way to differentiate candidates, then its meaningless and is not accomplishing anything.

Only those who can't or won't invest time creating a meaningful interview process fall back to leetcode.

It is accomplishing something. When 40 different applicants are equally able to do the job, the only selector you have is "culture fit", which is where bias starts to easily kick in (race, age, whatever), and that is a legal risk.

The leetcode hoops exist to provide a provably objective measure for hiring, even though that measure is unrelated to job performance. It's purely a lawsuit avoidance mechanism.

This guy startups.

For most other ideas you can build a quick MVP to validate or perhaps even just a landing page. Games take much longer to get off the ground.

I think the reason we don't see many LLM wrappers is because Games are technically complex, multi-disciplinary and ever changing.

> For example, what you don't want to do is NOT take amphetamines at testing if you had used them to study;

Hard disagree there. If you get any anxiety during the test it's better to take it only while studying.

Did you mean to reply to <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45772306>?

Huh? Care to explain?

I tried this but it did not go well.

The problem is that being unemployed and having no income puts you in a bad position to build something of value.

Another problem is that job hunting is very time intensive, even more so than a full time job.

A better alternative, at least for me, has been to go all in on finding the next job first and only then start working on building something.

AI will make you fast in the beginning but after a certain point your lack of understanding will catch up to you.

If you feel pressure to always skip understanding then that seems like an organization problem.

I started getting into game development which unexpectedly reduced the amount of time I wasted on youtube.