[waythenewsgoes]

As long as you don’t wake me at 3AM to rotate a red-black tree, or find the median of two sorted arrays we should be good

[Ekaros]

I must remember to ask how many times those problems happen in company's code base in next interview. Or whatever they ask. And if it is more than one, ask if they have libraries for it... You know good development practises and all.

[karmakurtisaani]

Being a smartass typically goes down well in interviews.

[ihumanable]

Exactly this. As someone that’s served as an oncall engineer for years now, the skills you need to operate a cluster are completely different from the things leetcode tests for.