[toma_caliente]

I think a better way to phrase what the parent is saying is that Leetcode is not software engineering. You can be awful at solving leetcodes and still be a great software engineer.

Now, do I think algorithms and data structures make people better programmers? Absolutely. But I feel like most people work on in an area like web development where the usefulness of it is severely reduced when you are working at such a high level of abstraction.

[brasscodemonkey]

I agree. Memorizing algorithms to answer leetcode questions have their benefits but it’s extremely rare that a front end web developer would need those skills. If they did, that would mean the backend engineers aren’t using the right approach to organize and serve data to the client.

[rowanG077]

The point is if you know the basic algorithms and can apply them you don't need to memorize the answers to leetcode. You can (Gasp) come up with them.