alt Hacker NewsBetter example, leetcode interviews became so popular because people were memorizing FizzBuzz and they needed an alternative (but said interviewers didn't fully understand the purpose of FizzBuzz and though "harder means better, right?").
Better example, leetcode interviews became so popular because people were memorizing FizzBuzz and they needed an alternative (but said interviewers didn't fully understand the purpose of FizzBuzz and though "harder means better, right?").
leetcode interviews be ame a thing, because many believed solving leetcode style puzzles makes you superior. Not because someone would memorize fizzbuzz.
This thinking was popularized by coding competions which existed before leetcode and inspired leetcode. Schools themselves produced people who believed these puzzles are what makes you superior developer - one of us, special and choosen.