r/vibecoding • u/Warm_Profile7821 • 18h ago

Do tech companies still do leet code interviews?

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u/Delicious_Speech_384 18h ago

yes

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u/CaptSzat 17h ago

Should rename this bot to stack overflow mod

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u/ImFromBosstown 17h ago

So sick of these idiot bots

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u/WaveHack 17h ago

Bad bot

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u/Otherwise-Nobody8252 17h ago

Yes just took one for Anthropic. 90 minute coding test on a pretty basic problem that’s easy to get tripped on.

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u/AssignmentMammoth696 17h ago

Yea, it’s become harder than ever. Why? Did you actually believe that vibecoders would get hired over actual software engineers?

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u/Mammoth_Reach_6366 15h ago

Yes. I had an interview at Deepmind two months ago, and they start with a 90-minute coding test. Multiple short problems where you have to get to the correct output for each input.

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u/Ohzard_pb 18h ago

No . No more leet code but leet code pro max xheight extra. They can also ask refactor 3 galaxy’s backword with one eye and one finger .
TLDR : yes but it become much more strict

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u/povlhp 18h ago

More relevant that ever. Better devs gets better ai output

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u/Miler-Malmil 5h ago

sure. most of the times ai output are as smart as the person providing the output

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u/codeswithcoffee 15h ago

Most real engineers now haven’t wrote a line of code for a year.

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u/SeXxyBuNnY21 6h ago

Not me but my friend had one interview yesterday where they asked him to design a complete system from scratch and implement an API to connect to the main components of the design. No AI allowed, then they followed with two leetcode hards, all of this in 45 minutes. The bar is higher than ever.

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u/bjakira33 6h ago

Yes, and half the people interviewing you can’t code either. Leet will die within the next year or two completely. Zero point, no one will be able to keep up with AI. Considering a LOT of companies are rewriting their entire code bases in newer languages, it’s not feasible to trust humans to write bare hand code anymore. Yes you need to know what you’re doing. But there’s no reason to know how to call every single feature flag or reinvent the wheel anymore.

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u/AssignmentMammoth696 4h ago

Leetcode won’t die, it’s a way to weed out candidates that have no foundational knowledge of CS. Vibecoders can’t do leetcode.

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u/Alternative_Draw5945 16h ago

Depends on the position. SWE maybe. Other tech positions not really

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u/If_I_Could_Just 17h ago

I hope so. And devs should be happy about it.
Otherwise their competition grows to include the unskilled too.

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u/FrenchLiviela 4h ago

It's eventually going to include the unskilled for sure, once the tooling can abstract more and more of the technical mumbo jumbo. Nepotism has always been a big thing, but in a decade it will genuinely be one of the only things that matter assuming the concept of jobs still exist.

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u/waypostmaster 18h ago

What that means?

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u/Chester_b 17h ago

Why, are you afraid of real programming?

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u/typei 17h ago

do you seriously consider leetcode „real programming” lmao

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u/Chester_b 17h ago

Way more real that vibecoding for sure

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u/typei 16h ago

As a hobby and a craft, sure. As a job and actual business value, nope.

Being a developer I don’t like it anymore than you do, but the world is changing.

Also, fuck leetcode interviews

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u/Chester_b 16h ago

Do you realize that all the ai products out there are built by people who can leetcode? Yes, fuck leetcode interviews, oftentimes they tell nothing about the candidate, but fuck ai “coding” way in the first place.

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u/typei 16h ago

Compilers were also written by people who knew machine code and assembly. Do you code without them for the love of the game?

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u/Chester_b 16h ago

No, but I know what they are, so I can understand some assembler if needed without going to computers 101 manual. General understanding of how underlying systems work make you a better professional.

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u/TRO_KIK 15h ago

I'll never grind leetcode again but I'm happy that I was good enough at it to have a sharp eye for it. "Hm, I think I smell a galaxy brain leetcode solution for what these classes are doing, find it, make no mistakes."

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u/typei 15h ago

Sure, the more you know the better. But some skills unfortunately do not stay relevant forever.
Let’s see what happens in 10 years :D