[loeber]

Leetcodes are fun! You should find pleasure in solving puzzles and figuring things out. Consider yourself lucky that the interview process contains a part that is basically a game that you can get good at by memorization.

[InfinityByTen]

I hope you meant it sarcastically.

I genuinely don't find it fun to solve puzzles unless they have an application/ end goal in mind. Tell me to find cycles in a graph as a puzzle and I'll roll my eyes. It's worse if you ask me to do a topological sort for detecting cycles using some named algorithm.

Ask me maybe to verify that a CI verification sequence is valid, I'll probably be interested.

I understand that leetcode problems can be abstractions of everyday problems you might deal with at work. But I find them too academic, robbing people of rich context of actual problems. They don't teach you about how to draw equivalences between actual problems and their models.

[TrackerFF]

They are fun if you're into competitive programming.

But most people aren't, not even developers, so they probably take people straight back to school days and anxiety inducing exams.