I have 7yoe as Software Engineer and I currently work as Senior Software Engineer. Besides that, I always been decent with math. Got A/A- in maths classes without much effort. Got national rank(All India Rank) within 100 in engineering entrance exams.
However, I never really liked leetcoding. I see it as huge waste of my time and energy. The code we produce there is useless for real world. I always feel my limited life time is better spent contributing to an open source project or making something cool rather than wasting weeks and even months of my time writing code which is inherently useless.
I am still doing fine in my engineer career. Solving complex problems is fun and whenever I need to understand some specific algorithm to solve a specific problem, I quickly learn it.
So, I never really did leet code and still have almost no motivation to do it. If anything, I might just do it because of FOMO on TC. And from other posts, I guess a lot of you are on the same boat.
What I don't understand is why are interviewers so adamant about leet code style interviews? And why do you personally ask leet code style interview questions? I think we all agree that they don't really test engineering skills.
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do you let your interviewers ask 1) creative engineering questions that are subjective, or 2) leetcode questions?
true for all large tech companies. smaller companies might just be cargo culting.