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It can be scary to pigeon hole yourself into any specialist category with which it gives you less freedom of choice in the market place and be forced to make hard decisions on where you live and work. At least for me it's why I continually push towards being a generalist. That is, of course unless your talents in some specialist area are so fundamental to most companies that you'll be sought after for those skills and paid handsomely for the fact.

I disagree. Leetcode is less representative of your job than code review on a PR. Code reviews are an every day activity that can easily cause outages.

What's your argument that code reviews aren't a good representation of skills?

Yeah this is nice if you have large teams and repeatable projects. Smaller companies have much more ad-hoc requests. I stood up an entirely new type of project end-to-end from a docker compose into our cluster. Re-used alot of code base but it was still a bit of work. Much less than it used to be though.

Yeah I literally did this last week for a new in house AI assistant for my company. Just swap out Jenkins for GH actions (sadly). So... can confirm.