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i mean, i never said it wasn't required for a programmer to know about time,space complexity and some frequently used algorithmic patterns and data structures. My lamentation was against grinding leet code (not studying leetcode mind you) but grinding it and in general against interviews that seem to raise the bar higher and higher on the kind of leetcode questions they give. For that cycle detection algorithm example, if i ever encountered it in a real world scenario, i would just google "algorithms for cycle detection in a linked list", and just study some of them.