Leetcode interviews are more of a sadistic entrance ritual than anything approximating a fair gauge of skill or experience. I see no other reason to make proven

Leetcode interviews are more of a sadistic entrance ritual than anything approximating a fair gauge of skill or experience. I see no other reason to make proven developers study textbook problems during their free time (they sure aren't implementing knapsack algorithms from memory at work). It often goes unmentioned that these interviews test the wrong skills for software development and even instill bad practices. To wit, those artificially handicapped online IDEs force you to memorize language APIs which any real IDE would handle for you -- forget that the JS lowercase string call is "toLowerCase"? Too bad. Also, since time is of the essence, and no debugging tools are provided, you better be using an interpreted language (read: JS and Python -- and really only the former unless you can import the correct libraries) and littering your code with print statements. Other companies opt for the ostensibly fairer "take home CRUD app assignment" but this too is a facade to lend credence to a preselected candidate pool. No matter how well you complete the assignment with all enterprise grade best practices, you'll still playing the lottery (and this time with a five hour time sink). Bottom line is don't interpret a lack of success in this draconian system to a personal defect. Ideally, seek employers who assess candidates fairly and qualitatively.