Would you rather eat a cake made during a competition? because it seems like a good way to be eating egg shells.<p>While there may be merit in trying to solve a challenge in the shortest amount of time. Personally I prefer the advent of code style, a different challenges each day with a fun story to make it an enjoyable experience. The competitive programming and leetcode bent is the fast food of our industry.
A previous discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28274310" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28274310</a><p>(Competitive programming is useless (kislayverma.com), 150 comments, Aug 23-2021)
No, but it'll save you from failing tech interviews.<p>Before anyone say it, coding interviews are stupid, but having a proper job (at a proper company, with proper career paths) is not.