[marcinzm]

As I understand it, manager positions a tFAANG require some amount of leetcode as they want people who are technical (and they define technical as being able to do leetcode). Not sure how much they weigh that portion of the interview. That said, leetcode takes practice and is not an innate skill for the vast majority of people. I don't mean practice as in "an hour here and there" but more like "4 hours a day for two months." There's a reason people call it grinding leetcode.