If you hire using LeetCode, you will surround yourself with people who enjoy blogging about LeetCode in their free time.
LeetCode was never about LeetCode, it was always a stand in for culture.
It's now a signal for baseline compliance. That's generally good for companies that require mostly operationalists.
The problem is that anyone can learn to leetcode. If you're interested in doing something new and not just warehousing CS lawyers, you're gonna have to ask better questions than that.
At least where I live in Europe, it's almost impossible to not pirate. The government has strict controls on media and so it's impossible to even get access to most movies. Netflix, Amazon Prime and other streaming sites have been completely neutered. HBO Go, Criterion, etc. are completely inaccessible.
In the US, it's a different story. Everything outside of Karagarga is available to be streamed, or at least purchased on Bluray/DVD. The only big thing is quality. Streaming has atrocious quality for the most part.
LeetCode was never about LeetCode, it was always a stand in for culture.
It's now a signal for baseline compliance. That's generally good for companies that require mostly operationalists.
The problem is that anyone can learn to leetcode. If you're interested in doing something new and not just warehousing CS lawyers, you're gonna have to ask better questions than that.