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by chillacy 2096 days ago
I've come to agree. The fact that there are candidates that study with questions that are leaked online means that the bar ends up getting raised every year. 5 years ago the 2 pointer solution to linked list cycle detection might have been a clever thing, now if you haven't seen it then you're behind.

The good news is that you have a very material advantage if you, say, memorize the top 100 questions on leetcode. The bad news is that real life is just playing out Goodhart's Law:

> "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."