But really, it depends what people think of when they say “Leetcode style interview”. There’s a lot of coding interviews that superficially look like stupid leetcode, but the job really does benefit from that.
A basic example: I ask you to model some toy problem as a state machine. Is that a stupid leetcode challenge? Maybe. But many if not most complex UI interactions really are state machines and if you’re the kind of person who intuitively thinks in state machines, you’re going to write more maintainable code.
My personal blind spot is that thinking in graphs is difficult for me. I just fail to see ”Oh, this is a graph problem!”. A lot of times the code I write would be much easier to maintain and write had I realized I’m solving a graph problem. Better performance too.
edit: if you mean the performance anxiety party, yes. Several research papers have shown that anxiety induced by the interview context impacts people’s performance.
But really, it depends what people think of when they say “Leetcode style interview”. There’s a lot of coding interviews that superficially look like stupid leetcode, but the job really does benefit from that.
A basic example: I ask you to model some toy problem as a state machine. Is that a stupid leetcode challenge? Maybe. But many if not most complex UI interactions really are state machines and if you’re the kind of person who intuitively thinks in state machines, you’re going to write more maintainable code.
My personal blind spot is that thinking in graphs is difficult for me. I just fail to see ”Oh, this is a graph problem!”. A lot of times the code I write would be much easier to maintain and write had I realized I’m solving a graph problem. Better performance too.
edit: if you mean the performance anxiety party, yes. Several research papers have shown that anxiety induced by the interview context impacts people’s performance.