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{{short description|Online platform for coding interview preparation}}

{{Undisclosed paid|date=August 2023}}

{{Infobox company

| name = LeetCode

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| type = [[Privately held company|Private]]

| industry = Software

| founder =

| founder = Winston Tang{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}

| key_people = Hercy Chang (CEO){{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}

| website = https://leetcode.com/

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'''LeetCode''' is an [[online discussion platform|online platform]] offering coding challenges and interview preparation resources for software engineers and developers. The service provides coding and algorithmic problems, enablingintended for users to practice [[Software development|coding and improve their problem-solving abilities]].<ref name=nytimes2023/> LeetCode has gained popularity among job seekers and coding enthusiasts as a resource for technical interviews and coding competitions.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Ansari |first=Tasmia |date=2022-11-17 |title=The Ultimate Guide to Cracking Data Science Interviews |url=https://analyticsindiamag.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-cracking-data-science-interviews/ |access-date=2023-06-10 |website=Analytics India Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kolakowski |first=Nick |date=2022-12-08 |title=Which Programming Languages Are Growing? |url=https://www.dice.com/career-advice/which-programming-languages-are-growing |access-date=2023-06-10 |website=Dice Insights |language=en}}</ref><ref name=nytimes2023>{{Cite news |last=Singer |first=Natasha |date=2023-04-05 |title=For Lower-Income Students, Big Tech Internships Can Be Hard to Get |language=en |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/05/business/tech-internship-application-grind.html |access-date=2023-08-09 |quote=To gear up for the assessments, many students practice their skills on LeetCode, a free test prep site that offers coding and algorithmic problems, along with detailed solutions. The site also offers premium services. For $35 a month, it gives members access to specific problems that companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft previously used — and some continue to use — to assess applicants. To keep the questions up-to-date, the test prep service said, it regularly surveys members applying for tech positions.}}</ref><ref name=dummies>{{Cite book |last=Sonmez |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rEOvDwAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA108&dq=LeetCode&hl=en |title=Programming Interviews For Dummies |last2=Butow |first2=Eric |date=2019-09-11 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-119-56506-2 |language=en |quote=LeetCode is also a popular site for programmers who want to get up to speed.}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Harper |first=Jocelyn |title=Interview Insight: How to Get the Job |date=2023 |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8783-5_4 |work=A Software Engineer’s Guide to Seniority: A Guide to Technical Leadership |pages=19–28 |editor-last=Harper |editor-first=Jocelyn |access-date=2023-08-11 |place=Berkeley, CA |publisher=Apress |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-1-4842-8783-5_4 |isbn=978-1-4842-8783-5 |quote=LeetCode is a platform that specializes in algorithm questions ranked from “Easy” to “Hard” based on the complexity of the subject and solution. They also have a forum where people share what interview questions they encountered in phone screens and on-site interviews to share with the larger public and to help software engineers prepare. I have been fortunate that the only time that I encountered a LeetCode problem during a screening process was for Amazon. ... On this last interviewing journey, I found myself enjoying practicing algorithm coding questions because I found alternative resources to LeetCode. }}</ref>

== Features ==

LeetCode offers both free and premium access options. While free users have access to a limited number of questions, premium users gain access to additional questions previously used in interviews at large tech companies.<ref name=nytimes2023/> These questions are categorized into easy, medium, and hard difficulty levels, allowing users to select challenges based on their proficiency.<ref>{{Cite web |title=LeetCode - The World's Leading Online Programming Learning Platform |url=https://leetcode.com/ |access-date=2023-06-21 |website=leetcode.com}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=August 2023}} The performance of users' solutions is evaluated based on response speed and solution efficiency, and is ranked against other submissions in the LeetCode database.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Xing |first=Jessica |title=Here's what job seekers need to know about LeetCode, the coding-skills platform millions of developers use to ace the notoriously difficult technical interviews at firms such as Apple, Amazon, and Google |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/leetcode-coding-test-apple-amazon-google-technical-interview-prep-job-2021-11 |access-date=2023-06-21 |website=Business Insider |language=en-US}}</ref>

LeetCode supports multiple programming languages, including [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[Python (programming language)|Python]], [[JavaScript]], and [[C (programming language)|C]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Nguyen |first=Nhan |last2=Nadi |first2=Sarah |date=2022-10-17 |title=An empirical evaluation of GitHub copilot's code suggestions |url=https://doi.org/10.1145/3524842.3528470 |journal=Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories |series=MSR '22 |___location=New York, NY, USA |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |pages=1–5 |doi=10.1145/3524842.3528470 |isbn=978-1-4503-9303-4 |quote=LeetCode questions come with test cases in various programming languages, ... (Python, Java, JavaScript, and C)|doi-access=free }}</ref> The platform features forums where users can engage in discussions related to challenging problems, the interview process, and share their interview experiences for the benefit of the community.<ref name=dummies/>

== History ==

LeetCode was founded by Winston Tang in 2011.{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}} LeetCode was founded in [[Silicon Valley]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=吴江编著 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ENZqEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT9#v=onepage&q&f=false |title=高效制胜：程序员面试典型题解 |date=2021-07-01 |publisher=Beijing Book Co. Inc. |isbn=978-7-115-55198-6 |language=zh}}</ref>{{Verification needed|date=August 2023}}

LeetCode expanded its operations to China in 2018 in response to surging demand.<ref name=yicai>{{Cite web |first=Liao |last= Shumin |title=IT Job Interview Prepper LeetCode Pockets USD10 Million From Lightspeed China |url=https://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/it-job-interview-prepper-leetcode-pockets-usd10-million-from-lightspeed-china |access-date=2023-08-16 |website=www.yicaiglobal.com |language=en}}</ref> In 2021, LeetCode secured its first round of funding, receiving a $10 million investment from [[Lightspeed China Partners]].<ref name=yicai/>

== See also ==