> It’s absolutely hilarious you think leetcode would give you the skills to design anything larger than a simple website.
The point of leetcode is not to show what you can do, it is to show what you can't do.
To keep up with your analogy, being able to design a simple website doesn't make you able to set-up an enterprise-level infrastructure, but if someone isn't able to design a simple website, I don't want to hire him for my enterprise-level infrastructure.
As for "outside the box" thinking, it only works if you know where the box is, otherwise you are just being clueless.
And by the way, because it is an argument I see way too often, calling the "sort" function of your favorite library instead of doing the exercise "as intended" is not "outside the box" thinking, it is literally the most obvious thing to do. What could count as "outside the box" would realizing that you can solve the problem more efficiently by not sorting anything at all, which requires you to know your sorting algorithms to show that it is indeed more efficient.
The point of leetcode is not to show what you can do, it is to show what you can't do.
To keep up with your analogy, being able to design a simple website doesn't make you able to set-up an enterprise-level infrastructure, but if someone isn't able to design a simple website, I don't want to hire him for my enterprise-level infrastructure.
As for "outside the box" thinking, it only works if you know where the box is, otherwise you are just being clueless.
And by the way, because it is an argument I see way too often, calling the "sort" function of your favorite library instead of doing the exercise "as intended" is not "outside the box" thinking, it is literally the most obvious thing to do. What could count as "outside the box" would realizing that you can solve the problem more efficiently by not sorting anything at all, which requires you to know your sorting algorithms to show that it is indeed more efficient.