I see a disturbing trend in industry especially in Bay area from my experience.

Young engineers are bad at debugging, bad means real bad but good at programming puzzles.

This points to the fact that people value puzzles over experience and in turn miss the big picture.

Sure you can code up a balanced RB tree in 5 mins, but what will you do when packets start showing up in bursts on your service? Can you find out that on a live system?

I despise this new Bro culture of mugging programming puzzles from leetcode and hackerank. Faltering at first real world challenge is not only disappointing, but an insult to craft of engineering.

/Rant over