What's the point of Leetcode in 2026? We don't code anymore. Does your company still have leetcode interview rounds?I understand that leetcode was nothing more than a candidate filter. But back then, they at least tried to explain it by saying we were checking "how a candidate can handle corner cases," "how a candidate can write code and think," and so on. Now, even such weak arguments can't be made, because all of that is simply a thing of the past.We might as well ask candidates to juggle three tennis balls during interviews and show it on video - that would also be a filter. Leetcode today is just as useless a filter as this.
Why do american companies do this shit even?this is not how the real world is when you're working in a big project.I think a good way to test candidates in an interview would be to give them some code from a component of a product the company build and I don't know, find bugs in there, maybe extend the component, etc. etc.I haven't seen an european company doing leetcode, because it's trash
>>109251457european tech companies are nonexistent. there's some "tech" at banks, insurances and gov services but that's all the EU tech. and maybe some outsourcing consultancies in eastern european countries like serbia moldova hungary bulgaria....
>>109251457>I think a good way to test candidates in an interview would be to give them some code from a component of a product the company build and I don't know, find bugs in there, maybe extend the component, etc. etc.This is a shit idea because actual applications the company makes aren't toy problems and the candidate lacks all context regarding it entirely, while the whole product is almost certainly much too vast to discuss in a short interview.Interview questions and problems are supposed to prove to you that the candidate has the required knowledge and even more importantly that the candidate can think and problem-solve. The scope of whatever you're asking needs to be small enough because there's not much time and it needs to illustrate the skills you're looking for. I don't think LeetCode is any good, but giving them random snippets of code from your product ain't it either.
