It also works in North America. Outside of FAANG (and FAANG wannabes) I have never seen leet code stupidity. Nor has any of the people I know in the SW field (

It also works in North America. Outside of FAANG (and FAANG wannabes) I have never seen leet code stupidity. Nor has any of the people I know in the SW field (across multiple industries, fintech, aerospace, data analytics, etc.) Whiteboard system design -- sure. Small practical example project, sometimes. But never that type of brain dead, artificial realtime algorithm coding.