My exact experience, just few more years. And no, I’ve never heard from anyone in my (decent above average) pay grade about their production leetcode success st

My exact experience, just few more years. And no, I’ve never heard from anyone in my (decent above average) pay grade about their production leetcode success story. Not even a glimpse of it, not a single time. I myself though implemented BFS once for a factory which planned tight supply for scheduled orders. That was it. Highest CS I ever needed. do you think that being able to solve LeetCode/HackerRank questions (not brute forcing them, but rather understanding the underlying algorithm) help you become a better developer Being aware and understanding what it does is enough, like in “it does x in log” or “it does x in nlogn with these caveats”. I’d never try to reinvent/reimplement any of it and would object if anyone tried. Because it’s trivial to screw up an edge case, and given the amount of screw ups in plain dumb code… I don’t believe anyone who claims they could do it in the wild. It must be an academic setting, not a regular company at least.