How much does LeetCode judge a programmer’s worth?

2 pointsseanmcdirmid1 comment

Just flubbed a technical screen by not getting the nuances in two otherwise easy LeetCode questions. I always thought of LeetCode questions as crap filters, but do they measure something else as well?

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They measure how well you can memorise something that you will probably never use in practice unless in some extremely specific field like database tree building.

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