LeetCode Interview Criticism

Leetcode interviews don't showcase software engineering skills, they showcase your ability to solve leetcode problems. Those are two very different things

It's a great way to hire people who are good at LeetCode. It's a terrible way to hire people who are good at whatever your company actually does.

Exactly. Leetcode only measures how much leetcode the candidate has been practicing. Nothing else.

It sounds like you were asking a 25 year senior who has proven themselves able to start multiple companies leetcode style questions to decide if they are competent. The sort of questions that candidates have to waste months drilling for. That is insane and disrespectful towards the candidates time. Younger people put up with this but seniors know it’s nonsense and he was probably just tired of it all. You didn’t want to hire a software developer, you want a leetcoder

Alternatively just refuse to do leetcode "challenges". As a software engineer leetcode is barely related to what i actually do in my job. Anyone who thinks it is a good way of evaluating candidates is a clown.

Good candidates do not apply if leetcode is involved; good candidates know they can code and they want to have interviews where they are asked, from a high level perspective, about past projects and the like. On the other hand, bad candidates know they cannot code nor talk about past projects in a decent way, but it’s easier for them to cheat by submitting copied pasted code than to talk about software.By using leetcode in your interviews you are giving bad candidates an opportunity to apply

Looks like leetcode style interviews are not bringing the right people on board.

It's a new spin on the old leetcode problem - if you are good at leetcode you are not necessarily a good programmer for a company.

"Leetcode" algo questions are supposed to test how you think and programming skills but for most people it just tests if they've seen the question before or not.

Leetcode hiring practices is what I'm thinking.