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I did a job search this year and I think while everyone made me do some amount of coding challenge, some were much more "leetcode-y" than others.

In my limited sampling, Stripe and VMWare stand out as big companies you've probably heard of where the coding challenge felt closer to "help us verify you've been writing software professionally for a while" and further from "prove you could still pass an advanced undergraduate exam on data structures and algorithms". I'm sure both those co.s are large enough that your experience may vary, but it made me hopeful that our long dark winter of perpetually drilling intermediate to advanced algorithms coursework is ending.