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Interestingly then, those contributions are also not a measurement of the candidates abilities but mostly of the AI models.

I wonder if hiring adjusts to that but I doubt it. It might only push it even more towards "marketing matters most" instead of actual ability.

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>I wonder if hiring adjusts to that but I doubt it

Tech hiring/interviews have almost nothing to do with assessing the candidates' ability to do the job.

There are so many leetcode questions where solving it requires knowing some trick. Part of the trap for SWEs is that once you know the trick you feel smarter, but it really has nothing to do with software engineering.

Now that Claude is the best leetcoder in the world it would be great if companies which intend to hire humans would reconsider asking such dumb questions.

I've personally started focusing a lot more on code quality and communication skills over correctness of solving some leetcode problem. If I could get the infrastructure in place for it in the interview, I would have candidates generate something via AI and watch their process for that (how do they evaluate a plan, how do they review the code, etc.).

Force them to use a bad LLM and clean up the code?

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