If you want to make a lot of money as a SWE, either be so senior that leetcode isnt the focus, or learn it. Theres almost a direct correlation between leetcode difficulty and pay
I've found this channel, which seems to have a mix of companies asking leetcode questions and those asking more real-world questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpMFCHOxK6A
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[ 1.9 ms ] story [ 41.5 ms ] threadleet is fine for junior, but algo's don't come up in real life all that often.
in my experience even for staff engineer or principal they want leetcode BS interviews
regardless of what you think, for every engineer you can find an executive or marketing person better compensated.
on the marketing topic yeah, but for SWE you dont need a good school/social skills/a ton of experience. you just need raw algorithmic skills
to be a good SWE you do need experience, a CS degree, coding skills, social skills, creativity, and more. lots of things leetcode doesn’t measure.
But I still hold, you just need leetcode. They dont measure anything else, aside from system design, which is similar in its need to be memorized.
https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards