I think a lot of people lump leetcode questions into one thing, when it can be as many things as one would like it to be. I like to do the easy questions to fam

I think a lot of people lump leetcode questions into one thing, when it can be as many things as one would like it to be. I like to do the easy questions to familiarize myself with a new language. There are certain questions that are math questions disguised as programming questions. I like to do those when I feel like brushing up my math knowledge. There are questions that test your knowledge on data structures. I like to do those if I want to learn that. There are questions that test your knowledge on algorithms. And there are questions that combine some or all of the above. How one uses leetcode or leetcode style questions is up to them. I think exploring the extremes of possible answers for the questions is a completely fine way to spend your time. And I also think there are several questions on leetcode that should be no where near an interview. But people aren't perfect and you often see those questions misapplied in an attempt to gauge skill.