Interviewing I've done for high competence positions that aren't necessarily super high volume had such creative and difficult coding assessments that bitching

Interviewing I've done for high competence positions that aren't necessarily super high volume had such creative and difficult coding assessments that bitching about leetcode just seems soooooo bizarre to me by comparison. Companies that did leetcode stuff are just like a joke. Can you reuse this array to store the information you're using while you're going through this list of items? Great! Wow, smart candidate! Okay, try interviewing for something like Insomniac Games where they want you to write an effective memory manager in C as a screening question! Or interview for Sony where you got 3 algorithms problems, 3 game logic vector math type problems, and 3 obscure memory uses of C problems in 2 hours and you gotta do it all on paper. These are out of date too. It's probably even more involved now for game companies. Leetcode is totally fine and you should get comfortable using the techniques you learned in your core competency classes in school to solve novel problems.