> No, we all know it measures those things, and those are exactly the things the measurers want to measure.
I wouldn't be so sure everyone realizes it doesn't measure anything relevant to actual job performance although it should be obvious (since nobody whiteboards algorithm puzzles all day in an actual job).
In all of these threads there will be many people saying they only want to hire the top% of developers (as if it was a strict linear scale, as opposed to hundreds of intertwined skills) and they justify leetcoding as the way to do that in a belief that top leetcoder is somehow a top software engineer, instead of realizing these are unrelated skillsets.
I wouldn't be so sure everyone realizes it doesn't measure anything relevant to actual job performance although it should be obvious (since nobody whiteboards algorithm puzzles all day in an actual job).
In all of these threads there will be many people saying they only want to hire the top% of developers (as if it was a strict linear scale, as opposed to hundreds of intertwined skills) and they justify leetcoding as the way to do that in a belief that top leetcoder is somehow a top software engineer, instead of realizing these are unrelated skillsets.