I know this is a controversial take. Stay with me. LeetCode is not bad. Practicing algorithms is not...
Dry-run code-reading questions are now standard at Amazon, Google, and Stripe—testing execution fluency that LeetCode memorization cannot cover. For tech teams hiring, this signals a screening gap: most candidates write code fluently but cannot trace execution, requiring dual assessment in interviews.
I know this is a controversial take. Stay with me.
LeetCode is not bad. Practicing algorithms is not bad. But if LeetCode is the only thing you are doing to prepare for Python technical interviews, you have a gap.
Here is the gap.
What LeetCode Trains
LeetCode trains you to write solutions to known problem categories. Sliding window. Two pointers. Dynamic programming. Binary search. You learn patterns and apply them.
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