Comment by gopher_space

> My biggest problem with leetcode type questions is that you can't ask clarifying questions. My mind just doesn't work like most do, and leetcode to some extent seems to rely on people memorizing leetcode type answers. On a few, there's enough context that I can relate real understanding of the problem to, such as the coin example in the article... for others I've seen there's not enough there for me to "get" the question/assignment.

The issue is that leetcode is something you end up with after discovery + scientific method + time, but there's no space in the interview process for any of that.

Your mind slides off leetcode problems because it reverses the actual on-the-job process and loses any context that'd give you a handle on the issue.