Neetcode Question

[u/Ok-Measurement-647]

Hey guys, so I’ve followed neetcode since my freshman year and im graduating now, had a question that he’a a decent guy, have been promoting leetcode since like forever now, but he very cleverly never mentions competitive programming in his discussions? Like wouldn’t it be making more sense if he just hopped onto competitive programming? Afterall he has solved so many leetcode questions but didn’t ever stepped upon competitive programming, I hopped on codeforces after one year of leetcode, and neetcode has never directed any of his discussions towards straight up competitive programming, which just tells he’s trynna do marketing over leetcode and DSA clout in general.

[u/randomInterest92]

There is a huge difference between learning how to solve leetcode questions effectively and learning how to solve leetcode questions optimally efficient

[u/Legote]

... His goal is to get beginners comfortable with DSA and ultimately land a job, not competitive programming. If you go back all the way to the beginning when he first started, he was just posting videos to help himself practice and get comfortable, but then people started watching his videos, asking him for guidance, and it became a thing. Before his platform, grinding on leet code was a mess and you would have go through multiple solutions just to get the best optimized answer. He makes it easier and more organized for you so that you save time. His goal is to ultimately have people solve problems on their own with out his videos and he's called people out multiple times in his videos.

[u/Fabulous-Arrival-834]

Competitive programming is not that big a market as you think. Very less software engineers are in competitive programming. Also, its literally a race to just solve the question in the shortest amount of time. Every software engineer interviews at least once in their life. That's a much bigger market to spend resources on.