[candiddevmike]

> Second, our larger programming tasks were taken the LeetCode repository of skills-based interview questions. These questions may not be indicative of industrial practice (Behroozi et al., 2019). This is partially mitigated by the fact that they are indicative of programming tasks people carry out and study for in the hiring process.

It doesn't seem like they tested "boring" 9-5 programming, or programming net new features.

[replygirl]

in other words: if you get high enough, you can fool yourself into thinking leetcode matters for more than 30 minutes at a time

[gremlinsinc]

they should have tested building out some crud app in their preferred stack. leet code is hard if you're not high, and it's mentally challenging since every question is a new high complexity issue where normal code you might have a spot your stuck in, but the rest is easy to finagle.