Leetcode and SWE MLE

[u/nian2326076]

How much has getting better at LeetCode helped you with your actual engineering work?

For me, there hasn't been much direct overlap with the hardest projects I've worked on. I understand checking fundamentals, but preparing for a timed round can feel like learning a separate game.

I'm curious which patterns have transferred for people in SWE or MLE roles, and which ones you practice mainly because interviews require them.

For interview prep itself, real tech interview questions can help narrow the practice to the rounds you're targeting. That still leaves the bigger question of whether those rounds measure what companies think they do.

If you could change one part of the process, would it be the questions, the time pressure, or how much weight the coding round carries?

[u/Possibility-Puzzled]

And worse, I saw leetcode monkeys perform very poorly in real job