I didn't mean it in a "cultism" way at all. I was more saying that the point of leetcode isn't to discover if someone is a great engineer but to discover if they are capable of becoming one. Big tech figures if you're capable of becoming a great engineer you either already are due to experience or soon will be because they'll make you into one.

They've decided things like ability to devote time to a meaningless skill that is required to get the job, attention to detail, and problem solving skills are what is required to become a great engineer and see that letcode is a good way to test for those things at massive scale.