> how can you have a CS degree and a career and have no personal projects? Other people's lives differ from yours in ways that are difficult to imagine. Plenty

> how can you have a CS degree and a career and have no personal projects? Other people's lives differ from yours in ways that are difficult to imagine. Plenty of people have a career in programming without ever going to college. Just because one can't imagine it doesn't make it invalid, or even that it is one's business. If it isn't about their job performance, don't measure it. > all the arguments you give are the same for leetcode prep. An interesting point, but of course I wasn't defending leetcode interviews, I was responding to your assertion that people who have the requisite skills necessarily have free time, and the subtext that any time not spent working was available for more working.