CP (Competitive Programming, Olympiad/leetcode puzzles) uses Computer Science (Algos & DS) the same way as e.g. Physics and Biology use Mathematics, i.e. it is a completely different discipline with its own trivia knowledge and tricks that has nothing to do with a software engineering.
Knowing how to do math is generally useful as a biologist or physicist. Sure there’s trivia or whatever but knowing how an array works is definitely important for software engineering, just like knowing how to do algebra is also important for biologists.
My point is that just because Math is useful for both physicists and biologists, that does not mean that for a physicist position you should interview the candidate (a physicist) in Biology. Biology "is a completely different discipline with its own trivia knowledge and tricks".
To further clarify :) leetcode trivia & tricks != Algorithms/Computer Science.
Knowing the difference between arrays and linked lists is one thing, but knowing the puzzle tricks such as sliding windows, two pointers or some exotic DSs that are only used in such puzzles is another thing.
