Who cares about leetcode? That's not engineering. It's a bunch of puzzles.
Software is a team sport, you need a few people that are really good at this crap in a company, but the majority of the work has nothing to do with it.
You need the creative types, the methodical, the workhorses, the leaders and the followers, and maybe, a couple of the puzzle solvers.
I've seen bright people fail miserably on a real project and the not so bright take it to the finish line. Don't measure your value by a bunch of puzzles.
Software is a team sport, you need a few people that are really good at this crap in a company, but the majority of the work has nothing to do with it.
You need the creative types, the methodical, the workhorses, the leaders and the followers, and maybe, a couple of the puzzle solvers.
I've seen bright people fail miserably on a real project and the not so bright take it to the finish line. Don't measure your value by a bunch of puzzles.