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Just say no to it. I decided to go public and add on my LinkedIn and now on GitHub too a disclaimer (see here https://github.com/mihaitodor) that I refuse to do Leetcode-style interviews or anything like that and I'm happier since. Sure, there are companies which will refuse to talk to me because of this, but that's fine. I never passed one of those interviews anyway and always had to take jobs where I didn't have to live code during the interview.

Whats the last time you used bubble sort in your Linktree clone side-project?

Yeah the problem these kind of interviews don't even test how well you think about a problem and how capable you are of designing the solution. The expectation is that you basically perfectly memorize the optimal solution (which was probably found by some Ph.D. working on algos). And in the end you're end up implementing some endpoints for a 1k MAU CRUD.