A lot of people say that they never encounter leetcode-like problems in real life and therefore they are silly. Am I an outlier? I feel like I actually encount

A lot of people say that they never encounter leetcode-like problems in real life and therefore they are silly. Am I an outlier? I feel like I actually encounter these kinds of things fairly often, or at least the insights that they represent. (Eg: this week I'm implementing a simple path-finder to deal with a sliiightly overgrown state machine from a vendor. ) So - at least because of that - I tend to think of leetcode problems as more or less a slightly harder and more practical fizzbuzz. Complaints about leetcode do tend to mirror complaints you read about fizzbuzz. Am I being strange here? Perhaps not. I figure there's at least two or three ways to pass a leet-code-like test: Either you just happen to have just done a bunch of marginally interesting programming somewhere in your past (which is probably what the test was designed for?), OR you did a study in college that ideally allows you to avoid the worst parts of the school of hard knocks (also ~fine), OR you explicitly practice for the test. I suspect Goodharts law might be at work here: In some cases the measure has become the target.