[salmonlogs]

As someone who has worked for two FAANGs so far, I can tell you that leetcode is a running joke that has almost zero correlation to actual skills.

Sure people practice a bit when they play the interview game, but being successful in FAANG is pretty much unrelated to solving leetcode problems.

[haspok]

Everyone is aware of this (including FAANG themselves), yet they keep doing it, like some ritual. I would say THAT is the running joke.