AWS Outage LeetCode Joke

AWS us-east-1 was down today. And with it, a significant part of the internet. Did you know that everytime this happens, the SRE team gathers and solves 5 HARD leetcode problems to fix the incident? And then, magically the incident is solved. And that's why leetcode is so important for interviews. Follow me for more life changing career advice.

A LinkedIn-style post jokes that when AWS us-east-1 goes down and takes part of the internet with it, SRE engineers supposedly fix the outage by solving five hard LeetCode problems. The punchline mocks interview culture and the exaggerated belief that LeetCode skills are directly responsible for solving real-world infrastructure incidents.

• @pokupkabitka / 52553 2025-10-21