[jmspring]

The correlation doesn't exist. A large segment of the Leetcode-uber-alles practitioners are also the ones that are obsessed with total compensation as the ultimate measure. It was a mistake by google and others to focus purely on this , but we are where we are. Many of the leetcode fanatics can't deal with real world issues in software or operations.

[lupire]

These companies look for people who write software to handle real-world issues on software and operations.

The mistake is in refusing to have a separate job and hiring rubric for sysadmins