Environment (in general) is what determines skill set, not the other way around. If the interview process makes you focus on leetcode skills, and your manager f

Environment (in general) is what determines skill set, not the other way around. If the interview process makes you focus on leetcode skills, and your manager focuses on LOCs produced and hitting story milestones and less on spending time integrating with the team and learning about legacy codebase; it makes sense those who came out of this environment would be less prepared to tackle certain kinds of problems.