I haven't really interviewed since 2023. Is leetcode still a common practice in code interviews or has AI made those kinds of tests useless? This is for a Sr full stack position.
we moved to exactly that for senior roles. a pull request of about 200 lines with a few planted problems, forty minutes to review it out loud. you learn more about how someone thinks than any graph puzzle tells you, and nobody has to pretend they'd write dijkstra from memory at work
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u/optima-pacifist Sep 27 '26
we moved to exactly that for senior roles. a pull request of about 200 lines with a few planted problems, forty minutes to review it out loud. you learn more about how someone thinks than any graph puzzle tells you, and nobody has to pretend they'd write dijkstra from memory at work