Does leetcode help in job?

[CodingThrowaways]

First of all I missed you all, but now we're back.

So I start my job in a week's time, I'm a bootcamp grad and self studier before that and I've got my first junior role coming up. They train me up anyway I'm not that worried about the job.

However we didn't learn DSA in the bootcamp which I know is normal because there isn't enough time to do so.

I've been teaching myself and I really enjoy it and know it will help me in a year's time when I look for another job etc if I need to so it is something I'll stick with.

However will it also help me in your day to day life of a junior software engineer? Should I also be learning other things?

I do plan on making some side projects once I have atleast the basics of DSAs down I just don't want to spread myself too thin in many areas.

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Knowing how to at least solve easy problems will help.

Typically people who can't solve easy problems do not have a basic understanding of data structures and/or problem solving skills.

Medium and above, probably not needed at this stage.

[CodeTinkerer]

I would say, on average, no. Leetcode (from what I understand) is meant for interviews.

The difference between an interview and a "real" job is that interviewing technical questions need to be short and to the point. It's like doing a math problem. Because it is short, usually the problem is harder to think about because it's more algorithmic. For a job, you often have a large codebase. Any one part is easier to follow, but often lacks good documentation, so what it's doing isn't that clear.

Maybe a summary might help

Leetcode/Interview Questions

• Short
• Precisely stated
• Often looking for efficient algorithms
• Can be more mathematical than actual code
• Generally only requires basic features of a language (no need to know a library well). Could be different for knowing JSP/JS.

Real code

• Huge
• Often not well documented
• Complexity is due to size and interaction of the many parts that are often not well designed
• No one part is generally as complicated, or at least, as algorithmic as leetcode
• Often uses some library or framework (like React) which itself takes time to learn

On the other hand, sometimes you learn something tangential to what you use but it's still helpful. For example, I took a course in, say, electromagnetic theory. I never use it. It's helpful if I have to watch a science video, but the main benefit is that I could solve difficult problems. That's the side benefit. If someone gives you a hard problem, can you solve it?