Comment by svnt

Your mistake, the right way to do this is to optimize 100% for the leetcode interview and 0% for how to do a job.

You get hired and undercontribute for nine months before putting in notice after you win another interview, which is easier this time because you won one before and got the pedigree.

There is a whole generation of people who write solutions to assignments and have no idea how to create software. These commits are what happens when they don’t receive a prompt requiring a from-scratch implementation of a topological sort.