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Leetcode seems so pointless in the AI era. It was already pretty pointless but there’s nothing to it now.

Most companies still run these rounds. AI is generally banned during them, though some places are experimenting with allowing it. They want to see your foundational knowledge, not what a copilot can write.

I’ve never seen Leetcode test foundational knowledge. There are far better ways to do that than timed puzzles.

This used to be a pretty standard discussion a few years back when people still were being hired. I never saw any better way to systematically and somewhat fairly test a large number of candidates, so would you kindly elaborate on that statement?

This always reads like an admission - “Well of course it’s bad, but how else am I supposed to interview at mass scale?”

Why would you test a large number of candidates in the first place?

In a way it is this admission. Interviewing is a very difficult process to get right.

> Why would you test a large number of candidates in the first place?

How else do you do it for a company of the size of Google or Amazon?

See https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/ for some ideas.

The timed aspect is pretty discriminatory too. God forbid you have ADHD or anxiety.

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