As someone who wrote about interview prep (mlengineer.io), I encounter people hate this LC-non-sense quite often. There are few things come in mind. 1. When yo

As someone who wrote about interview prep (mlengineer.io), I encounter people hate this LC-non-sense quite often. There are few things come in mind. 1. When you apply to STEM graduate program, you also need to take GRE. It's clearly that you don't need those GRE absurd words in your study. But I do see some values in people who dedicate their time to learn these GRE materials. Company might see it the same way, they want to hire grinder. 2. Some companies like Intuit, Airbnb try different method, for example, giving candidate 90 minutes to solve one particular engineering problem related to real world. After a while, people share the problem sets and everyone who have prepared can crush them easily. 3. Some of my ex-coworkers who are competent and have good swe skills but they never bother with LC. as a result they stick with underpaid jobs for years. I strongly believe in the near future more companies will adapt different interview structure to evaluate candidates. The current structure heavily reward for grinders.