Yeah that occurred to me just after I submitted the post. I'll still stand by my own experience though. I felt so much more prepared on this latest round of int

Yeah that occurred to me just after I submitted the post. I'll still stand by my own experience though. I felt so much more prepared on this latest round of interviews after having worked on a type inference engine side project for the previous couple months, than I ever did after spending a couple months stressing over leet. Just, brain felt stronger for whatever reason. And I think it makes sense too. When I conduct interviews, I look more for how is this person thinking about the problem, than can they solve the question in isolation in the allotted time. Because unlike leet, it's not in isolation. There's always some back and forth, and that's where I think leet's shallowness shows.