So You Wanna Get Paid $250,000?
LeetCode isn’t just a gatekeeping ritual for FAANG salaries — it’s a modern-day sudoku designed to test how well you can juggle math, logic, and code under pressure.
The problem? Most of us freeze, overthink, or outsource the grind to AI tools, slowly atrophying our own problem-solving muscles.
This post makes the case for a different lens: treating LeetCode like a spreadsheet exercise, where each row mirrors a line of logic and each formula reflects a loop.
If you can sum numbers in Excel, you can build the intuition to pass coding interviews — and maybe even reclaim your brain from LLM autopilot.
