Comment by yogorenapan

I've won a couple hackathons with just CP-SAT & Linear Programming which led to my first jobs. I'm surprised not more people know/use it. Very inefficient compared to the "correct" answer but the development speed is much faster.

> If someone solves a leetcode hard with a constraint solver and you don't hire them, you are an idiot

Sometimes you just don't want someone that takes these shortcuts. I think being able to solve the problem without a constraint solver is much more impressive