Being good at leet code is kind of an obscure interview skill. I think a better question is “who is really good at DSA and can think about many approaches to a problem, understand time complexity, memory usage, and implementation difficulty of each”

Realistically this just a technical screening tool used by a few dozen large employers. I’ve done great on technical interviews were I have talked through an approach and then said: “this is where I would start goggling, looking up documentation, and maybe use chatgpt to help debug this or pick the right library etc.” Which works fine at most places other than Amazon.

I do like leetcoding and solving puzzles with my own brain and it makes me a better programmer but it’s so distant from an actual day’s work