They're not the same. I've never used Dijkstra pathfinding at my work, but I and yet, I seem to asked questions about it in interviews pretty consistently.

That wasn't my experience at a FANG - the joke was that we spent most of our time moving protocol buffers around. Very rarely encountered anything as challenging algorithm wise as leetcode medium.

On the other hand working at FANG encourages developing soft skills (cross team wrangling etc) that no amount of leetcode would teach you.

What do you consider engineering problems? Many engineering problems aren't about algorithms but rather solving a real world problem.