Programming is a creative activity. Is there anything more banal than solving problems with known solutions?
These companies want innovation, but ask questions that reward conformity.
The leetcode treadmill never ends, it’s big O is larger than years in your life.
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2 weeks system design
I’m ready to die
Its still useless, but fun :-)
I find the longer I remain with a company, the more I am expected to lead/mentor and the less time I have to code. So LC has been alright.
it's funny when someone says "i didn't have to prepare much to get that FAANG job, just brush up on your data structures & algorithms, bro"
if you get into google with only a few (or none) LC problems solved you're either
1) lucky
2) have done programming competitions during college (e.g. ICPC)
3) have gone through a few internships rounds which forced you to grind hundreds of problems (may be on Codeforces or Topcoder)
4) have gone through LC grind in your 3-5 previous job hunts
5) just love solving little programming puzzles for fun on e.g. Project Euler, and spent hundreds of hours doing do, or
6) all of the above
Most people doing "500+" problems are doing it because they're teaching themselves algorithms from scratch.
Which is not an unusual thing to have to do.