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It means that the employee is able to fulfill their tasks firstly according to industry and then company standards.

Having a job or even launching a successful project does not mean that one is good enough - especially in software where having a job doesn’t convince anyone to offer one a job without grueling interviews and where most of the software produced is riddled with bugs and security holes.

If one considers the hiring practices of top companies, they are absolutely claiming that the great majority of applicants are imposters.



What if the industry doesn’t even know how that task should be fulfilled or the company. There are some many projects/experiments/products are companies that good be delivered in some many ways.

> If one considers the hiring practices of top companies, they are absolutely claiming that the great majority of applicants are imposters.

It’s a logical fallacy that leetcode is only to filter imposters. And separately, gamification of interviews can definitely lead to real imposters.




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