In Defense of LeetCode

Brian Jenney
2 min readOct 2, 2020
disinterested developer sitting by computer
Another binary tree eh, LeetCode?

There seem to be two camps of people in the software engineering world: those who live and die by LeetCode and those that write it off as a kind of a parlor trick or an exercise in memorization.

“I’ll never use this in real life!” they protest! Meanwhile, every FAANG company and many others, will test you on problems that are similar to LeetCode or ripped directly from their site (I’m looking at you Facebook).

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Brian Jenney

full-stackish developer, late bloomer coder and power google user and owner of Parsity.io