Is Leetcode Good for Interviews?

LeetCode is an excellent tool for honing your programming skills in preparation for your big tech interviews. However, because recruiters are looking for much more than just competent coders, we feel that LeetCode falls short in sufficiently preparing applicants to land their dream job.

Does LeetCode help for interviews?

Memorization vs. lasting learning. LeetCode helps you pass your technical interviews, but its usefulness doesn't extend much beyond that. The solutions you memorize for LeetCode don't transfer to real-world software engineering problems.

How you practice with LeetCode for interviews is probably bad?

Leetcode doesn't make you say what the time and space complexity of your algorithm is. You will be asked this question in any technical interview where you write code since that's how we are objectively able to measure two solutions and say which one is better from time, space, readability, etc.

Marcus Vance

Marcus Vance

Cybersecurity & Digital Privacy Researcher

Marcus Vance is a cybersecurity auditor and technology writer dedicated to educating the public about online safety, data privacy regulations, enterprise security, and emerging cyber threats.