[actually_a_dog]

You nailed it, man. I don't do terribly well on Leetcode interviews, on average, but, for my last job, my interviewer told me some time after I got hired that I had done the best on that interview that she had ever seen. That's because it was a real world question as part of a structured interview process, as opposed to "let's just 4 engineers to throw random problems at the candidate."