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by throwawaynay 1602 days ago
depends on what you want to do imo

web dev at an average to good company? no absolutely not worth it

anything at a FAANG? +/- mandatory

anything that involves complex algorithms?(efficient delivery/dispatching system at scale, complex social media, complex games, anything where efficiency/speed/low memory usage is extremely important) probably yes

otherwise some basic algorithm solving is probably enough(I really enjoyed the algorithmic exercises on freecodecamp web path for example, I think it's just enough for about 80-90% of junior programming jobs)