Would you rather eat a cake made during a competition? because it seems like a good way to be eating egg shells.
While there may be merit in trying to solve a challenge in the shortest amount of time. Personally I prefer the advent of code style, a different challenges each day with a fun story to make it an enjoyable experience. The competitive programming and leetcode bent is the fast food of our industry.
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While there may be merit in trying to solve a challenge in the shortest amount of time. Personally I prefer the advent of code style, a different challenges each day with a fun story to make it an enjoyable experience. The competitive programming and leetcode bent is the fast food of our industry.
To answer that, first one must define “better.”
Better at what?
Before anyone say it, coding interviews are stupid, but having a proper job (at a proper company, with proper career paths) is not.