[jorblumesea]

As if regurgitating someone else's leetcode answers is any better? Or googling or stackoverflowing answers? Or a take home challenge?

Even at the ML level, engineering is more about applying known good techniques and less about new innovative ideas.

[codingslave]

Companies think regurgitating leetcode is better... the number of problems that can be asked is quite large. Memorizing that search space in itself takes tenacity and a good memory...of which are signs of a good employee (regardless of their current coding skill set)