Seems like since a few years ago all that matters are now leetcode style questions. How many years of experience? Leetcode for that. What did you do in your last job? Leetcode for that. Which school did you go to? Leetcode for that too. I don't think starting from senior manager will they still ask leetcode questions in interview, what about on technical path? Do staff and principal level still have to leetcode? That would really suck. It is like you have to take SAT and GRE throughout the year and you are skipping final exam to study SAT and GRE these days.
Never, it never stops. I know engineers with 25 years of exp asked Leetcode questions, by your company Managers and PMs I don’t think so
Be the change you want. If each of us senior folks stop this leetcode BS we can bring about change. Leetcode is not a good gauge of coding skills.
I don't ask leetcode questions when I interview others. I am old school so I do ask about bits, shift, xor, race condition, starvation, and other "experience is a good teacher" stuff though. I am kinda biased because what I learn was from a time when hardware was king and those who couldn't cut it for EE went for CS. Starting to leetcode now, it's never too late, but it is damn hard when you are middle age with kids.
Just do a couple a day
Leetcoding will not stop until enough senior engineers and managers design interview processes at their workplaces to avoid that style of questions. TL;DR the answer lies within you.
It will only stop if interviewers can't solve a problem a candidate poses to them and that affects their review/compensation
We’ve started to see changes recently. Interviews are more likely to be 2 rounds of coding, 1 behavior, 1 design and 1 project related.
As long as the role you’re applying to involves writing code, you will be asked leetcode style questions. Is that a good assessment of real world dev capability? NO. Is it fast and allows big companies to interview the most number of candidates in the shortest time? Yes.
I've been interviewing for a mix of senior and one step higher IC (staff, principal or lead, depending on what the company calls it... Kind of annoyibg that there is no concistency!) and see zero correlation about how much annoying algorithm heavy coding interview they give. Interviewed at one place as both IC and IC-to-manager transition role and didn't get leetcode-y questions for the transition role interview but had gotten the IC offer which I declined about 6 months prior so they might have skipped it because of that. And didn't get the transition role offer.
TC or GTFO 😂
200k when I joined, refuse to say based on current stock price (it is not part of the comp).
This lame joke is getting old now. Try something new kiddo.