[wayoutthere]

Yeah, grinding leetcode is still effective below the staff engineer level. Above that we start looking at what you’ve done that’s not code (conference talks, open source leadership, whitepapers, managing consultants, etc).

[shamiln]

I am interviewing for a Staff Software Engineer, SRE role and I expect leetcode to come up as part of the interviewing process.

[wayoutthere]

Oh the leetcode is a given at the staff level — it’s a filter, not selection criteria.