I agree. Great question. Academic LeetCode exercises are really not what I consider useful in evaluating candidates. However, I'm biased. I'm really, really go

I agree. Great question. Academic LeetCode exercises are really not what I consider useful in evaluating candidates. However, I'm biased. I'm really, really good at finding and fixing bugs, and pretty much stink at LeetCode, so take my support with a grain of salt. One problem is that, if the exercise gets known, expect an underground economy of solution cheats. Same with LeetCode, but that's sort of expected. Bug fix solutions hit harder.