My willingness to practice leetcode isn't correlated with my interest in new work or the work any given job post describes. It's also not correlated with my willingness to invest time in exploring the position.
6 hours of leetcode practice teach me nothing about a position, the work it entails, the problems the company is grappling with, and the people I'd be in the trenches with. 6 hours in conversation or working close to real problems are higher leverage.
I have meaningful open source work with real users in the queue, and blog posts that won't write themselves. I feel like it's pretty reasonable to sort positions that don't compel low-leverage busywork that doesn't help me assess the position above those that do.
Sure, they might mean to exclude me, but I'm skeptical.