The LeetCode Phenomenon

In the winter of 2015, I was working as a Software Engineer at Microsoft and looking for my next Software Engineering job (here’s why), albeit with little success. I remember expressing my frustration to a friend over a velvety Stout beer at a funky bar in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood on a cold, rainy November night. I remember his words clearly:

“So, there is this platform which sort of lets you game the System”