https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/qbgttt/does_anyone_else_find_it_toxic_when_developers?sort=controversial
This is probably the most dramatic thread in particular but there's some great REEEEing throughout from bootcamp grads who can't write "Hello word" without importing a half-dozen Javascript libraries and copy-pasting something from StackOverflow
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They're right that tech interviews don't weed out bad codecels at least. Coding isn't really about solving the same practice problems from leet code. Like one in a ten thousand hours of programming involves optimizating algos. Some of these dudes will crush the tech interview after hundreds of hour son leet code and then be clueless when you ask them to clone the repo and actually put a button on a screen or write a sql query.
It's like evaluating a novelist based on how many words per minute they can type extemporaneously.
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If you hire a novelist that can churn out 3 Hugo-worthy short stories in an hour, and then you fail to get any value out of him, the r-slur is you.
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