grinding leetcode problems does not make you a better engineer as the problems you typically solve day to day are very different from leetcode problems i have

grinding leetcode problems does not make you a better engineer as the problems you typically solve day to day are very different from leetcode problems i have come to the conclusion it is a mechanism for veiled discrimination and for testing how much effort you put into “preparing” for an interview… which makes no sense because you have been “preparing” for 14 years. the hiring process needs to be fixed so it prioritizes other things but unfortunately it seems we are stuck with it for now. myself i have no patience to deal with arrogant engineers who think i should be able to answer their cute trivia question or be the fastest developer in the west to implement binary search.