[carabiner]

I agree, it's sour grapes. These companies grew to be the most powerful in the world, even electing presidents, through these interview processes. The midwit memes can be summarized:

(low IQ) acting on simple instinct vs. (mid IQ) paralyzed by complex rationale vs. (high IQ) acting on simple instinct

The high IQ guys who just do the work to grind LC show enormous signal for being effective software engineers.

[linotype]

Professionally, I’ve never used anything most LC problems would signal for. I have libraries for that.

[crooked-v]

Leetcode seems like the epitome of the midwit meme to me. "I'd just use a library" vs "I'll write a custom optimized solution" vs "I'd just use a library".