alt Hacker NewsThey specifically mention "the P team at AWS". The two following things are perfectly able to be simultaneously true:
* The average Amazon engineer is not expected to have awareness of CS fundamentals that go beyond LeetCode-y challenges
* The average Amazon engineer builds using tools which are each developed by a small core team who _are_ expected to know those fundamentals, and who package up those concepts to be usefully usable without full understanding
(I did 10 years on CDO, and my experience matches yours when interacting with my peers, but every time I interacted with the actual Builder Tools teams I was very aware that lived in different worlds)
> The average Amazon engineer is not expected to have awareness of CS fundamentals that go beyond LeetCode-y challenges
I find this a bit unsettling. There are dozens of great CS schools in the US. Even non-elite BSc programs in EU sometimes teach formal methods.
There are also some good introductory books now, e.g. [1]. Perhaps its time to interview more on concepts and less on algorithmic tricks favored by LeetCode?
I doubt current undergrads can't go beyond LeetCode-like challenges.
[1] Formal Methods, An Appetizer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-05156-3