L3etcode

I despise LeetCode in its entirety, a platform where you devote a ridiculous amount of time "prepping" for interviews and regurgitate answers in O(fuck-all) time complexity. I went into Computer Science because I wanted to pursue my passion and share my passion of coding and the alike at a company but the dark reality is in order to do that I have to spend an ungodly amount of hours memorizing stupid problems in, again, O(fuck-all) time complexity just to get rejected. Why waste time doing these problems and not throw us into an actual interview, with real problem solving questions and not questions like sudoku solving or raindrops in a bucket, etc, etc. What a joke the SWE position has become. And all of that for you to get laid off? Are you fucking serious? I want to be asked actual technical questions and do an interview based on a real project with issues that I would need to solve in order to get hired, those hold real, actual value and not just "Largest Rectangle in Histogram." Anyone can grind out LeetCode problems 24/8, 368 (that's obviously a hyperbole.) and regurgitate their answer in O(my-ass) time complexity and get hired, but can the same people answer actual technical software engineering questions? Probably not because they're so focused on doing every, single problem on the face of planet earth just to get rejected and out-competed by a random guy located in fuck knows where because he did 1 more LeetCode problem than you and that was the one both of them got asked and he did it in some time 0.00000000000000000000000000001ms better than the person that got rejected. What a joke this industry has become.