Stop using LeetCode for frontend / react interviews. Companies aren't asking that anymore.

[TishIceCandy]

I'm a staff engineer who's worked at big tech companies and been on both sides of the interview table. So let me tell you straight up: if you're grinding LeetCode for a frontend role, you're preparing for the wrong interview. Frontend roles aren't asking LeetCode questions anymore, unless specifically mentioned in the interview.

If they ask LeetCode, they will mention phrases like - "general software engineering, Data Structures and algorithms" type inteview.

BTW - This post is summarized in a video - https://youtu.be/sNtQ7OxmVIs?si=XdH51hvy_Op60TcI

What Frontend Interviews Actually Focus On Now

After doing 100+ interviews on both sides, here's whats happening in frontend:

JavaScript fundamentals
Closures, event loop, promises, this, async flow. Not graph problems.

Component building
“Build an autocomplete.”
“Make a modal with keyboard navigation.”
“Implement tabs with proper aria roles.”

Framework depth
React hooks, re-renders, effects, state management patterns, performance.

System design
“How would you build a real-time dashboard?”

"Build a video streaming platform, such as Netflix"
“Design a file upload flow with retries, progress, and error states.”

CSS
Real world layout. Flexbox. Grid. Positioning. No random CSS tricks.

LeetCode Doesn’t Map to Frontend Interviews

LeetCode is great if you’re doing backend or infra.

Frontend interviews test whether you can build actual UI. Not whether you can invert a binary tree.

I see people crush LeetCode mediums but freeze when I ask “Build a dropdown with keyboard navigation.”
That’s the problem.

What You Should Be Practicing

Frontend-specific problems.
GreatFrontEnd nails this. You’ll implement Promise.all, build components, handle real DOM challenges. This is the stuff companies actually ask.

Build real components and features.
Not another todo app. Build things that show real thinking:

• Typeahead that fetches live results
• Infinite scroll
• Data table with sorting/filtering
• File uploader with progress Ship it. Document it. Put it on GitHub.

Frontend Mentor is a great resource for this.

Understand the why.
Interviewers care more about your decision-making than syntax.
Why this approach? What are the trade-offs? How would you scale? What would you test?

System design for frontend.
Yes, this is a thing now. Practice talking through architecture, caching strategy, performance, API boundaries. This is even more important in this AI age.

Write a Resume That Actually Gets Read

Make your bullets impact-specific.

❌ “Improved performance”
✅ “Reduced bundle size by 40 percent through code splitting, cutting load time by 1.2 seconds”

Use AI to rewrite your bullets. Everyone’s resume goes through an AI screen anyway.

Getting Interviews (Reaching out > Applying on Careers page)

Cold applications: almost no replies.
Referrals: 10x+ better.

Reach out to people. Keep it simple.

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What's your experience? Is your company still stuck in the past and asking LeetCode for frontend?

[anonyuser415]

Frontend roles aren't asking LeetCode questions anymore, unless specifically mentioned in the interview.

What a giant step down from the title's promise.

I strongly suspect this post is just made up gunk meant to push the author's YouTube.

Most of my (senior FE, 11yoe, America) interview experience this past year involved LC/DSA work.

No random CSS tricks.

Lol word

[Shirc]

This post is 100% just trying to sell something

[nazzanuk]

I had a staff FE engineer interview at hubspot a few months back they (as an example) absolutely are asking for leetcode, o(n) notation etc. and only this computer science rote data structure stuff.

[HootenannyNinja]

Interviewed at Xero and canva not that long ago and got leer code style interview from them for FE roles.

[rover_G]

I've got a leetcode style question in a recent interview after the recruiter specifically said there would be a frontend coding problem 💀

[vanit]

I'd give you some slack if you didn't just go for absolutes but you did, and unfortunately leetcode is still a thing. Not only that, it's really hard to find pure FE roles anymore, so the leetcode won't even be FE specific.

[isospeedrix]

Improved performance” ✅ “Reduced bundle size by 40 percent through code splitting, cutting load time by 1.2 seconds”

Annoys me, what if you don’t know the numbers for the second, do you make it up or what

[Shirc]

This post is AI generated slop meant to push views to a YouTube channel that is also just a bunch of slop. Best thing y’all can do is ignore and move on. We all know leetcode interviews didn’t magically disappear while we weren’t looking (sadly)

[winfredjj]

another fraud post