I agree entirely with both these points, although i would note that the space of unlike-leetcode work is larger than just gluing. I've spent a lot of time in my

I agree entirely with both these points, although i would note that the space of unlike-leetcode work is larger than just gluing. I've spent a lot of time in my career clarifying user requirements, hunting problems in data, writing build scripts and test tools, laying out UIs, parsing weird file formats, etc. I have also sunk weeks on algorithmic problems much more complicated and less clear-cut than anything in leetcode!