[xw30992]

Personally I love leetcode. I do it on Sundays like others do crossword puzzles.

But once upon a time these leetcode interviews made a ton of sense. Just getting your program to run at all was basically a leetcode exercise.

see for example: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/03/war-stories-how-princ...

I have my war stories too. It was fun but frustrating. Definitely not as productive as today.

Early 2000s internet was kind of like that too. The web was huge relative to what we had to work with and there wasn't the kind of products/services available then so asking leetcode stuff had a logic to it.

Admittedly, that's not where we are now for most programmers so it makes sense that the interview process should adapt.

[herval]

The kind of people who do best at FAANG interviews are the ones who enjoy leetcoding. We’re all selecting for the wrong skills.

[mewpmewp2]

Even if I enjoy leetcoding and I do, there are tons of things I would rather do before that, and that are far more useful, such as building and working on side projects.

So to me leetcoding is a waste of time and less fun than actually building something, having other people use what you have built. And there is infinite things to build there and learn.