[romankolpak]

Larger and more well-known companies do leet-code style programming challenges. I recently interviewed for a job in a ride hailing app company and they directly recommended practicing leetcode problems, even sent me examples of leetcode problems to practice solving. My sample is not big (it's 2 companies I iterviewed with recently), but it definitely feels like the industry is converging on this practice of testing leetcode-style problem solving in interviews. Community even built "workout plans" like this: https://www.grind75.com/

I'm 11 years into the profession. Solving leetcode is somewhat different from the problems I solve at work, so I struggled at first and had to practice, and practice a lot. I have yet to find out how useful this is outside of job interviews, but my brain started to forget some topics from CS after doing so much web stuff and it was a good way to remember these and practice problem solving.

[robswc]

Over a decade of experience shouldn't have to prove competence via leetcode, honestly. I fully believe it helps you become a better programmer... but its over-hyped. Shouldn't expect interviewing/preparing to interview to be a part-time job. Too busy in the day to day for that...