recently laid off late-40s senior engineer here; not the biggest fan of leetcode style questions and i do not ask them when i'm on the other side of the desk, but also i figured it was not a windmill i could afford to tilt at. i paid for a month of actual leetcode, spent 2-3 weeks intensively going through problems, and considered it time and money well spent for getting me back in practice.
(i do find the algorithms interesting in their own right too; it's just annoying to have prospective jobs gated behind finding and coding them up in 45 minutes. the older you get the more your focus at actual work emphasises depth over speed.)
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recently laid off late-40s senior engineer here; not the biggest fan of leetcode style questions and i do not ask them when i'm on the other side of the desk, but also i figured it was not a windmill i could afford to tilt at. i paid for a month of actual leetcode, spent 2-3 weeks intensively going through problems, and considered it time and money well spent for getting me back in practice.
(i do find the algorithms interesting in their own right too; it's just annoying to have prospective jobs gated behind finding and coding them up in 45 minutes. the older you get the more your focus at actual work emphasises depth over speed.)