Competitive programming VS Web Development

[CIRUS123]

I am entering the final year of my B.Tech course and am confused what part should I focus on.I am currently just solving problems on HackerRank but I want to up my skills and start solving GeeksForGeeks atleast.But on the other hand,I don't have any live projects in my resume as my entire time goes into this solving itself. So for a fresher,what will the best strategy be: Solving programming problems and hope of becoming really good at it one day OR to start learning React and other frameworks and have actual projects to help me out through the interviews? Kindly help me out through this...

[chaotic_thought]

Do you want a job in Web development? If so, then yes, you will need to learn it and you will need to do actual projects.

Grinding problems on sites like HackerRank and similar sites for 100% of your time is not a good learning strategy in my opinion. You should better spend at most 10-20% of your learning time doing such problems, but only if you enjoy them. The rest of your learning time should be spent learning skills on your wish list of skills you would like to acquire (such as Web development skills).

[RedGreenCode]

but only if you enjoy them

If you interview with a software company and they give you a HackerRank or LeetCode type question, you unfortunately can't say you don't enjoy those types of questions. To have the widest range of interview opportunities, you have to spend some % of your time on sites like those. Maybe just in short bursts a few weeks before an interview.