[Enumerating123]

your ability to solve leetcode problems has absolutely nothing to do with your ability as a computer scientist or software engineer; most of my friends haven't ever used leetcode (or even heard of it?) and have become CS PhD students, CS professsors, technical founders, open source maintainers reaching millions of people, and software engineers at assort big tech cos. The culture surrounding leetcode and gaming tech jobs is really toxic and you shouldn't let yourself get sucked into it.

[murph-almighty]

It's toxic, yes, but recruiters seem convinced this is how you get quality software hires, and so we get stuck playing the game.

[donovanian]

Agreed!

It's no way to live drilling dumb little puzzles; there's this prevailing attitude that we should be grateful or it's not a big deal. But for me, it's been nothing be joyless, and I've found a lot of satisfaction working at companies that don't require these charades.