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I have never, in ten years, had to do leetcode to get a job. And what on earth is "tier 2-3"?

This whole subthread reads like it's escaped from r/cscareerquestions.

Thanks for sharing your perspective. Your experience is very different from mine. Are you trying to say that you believe whiteboard interviews are less common than I think they are? Or are you trying to say that there are ways to conduct a job search such that one can successfully avoid such interviews?

There are ways to get a job without leetcoding still. But they are becoming rarer and rarer.

I think it mainly involves focusing on non-tech companies (who, BTW, are also starting to join the leetcode cargo cult).

I got my current job at a non-tech company (bank) several years ago. I did not get leetcoded back then. The interview was mainly language and framework trivia. Nowadays, we have to subject candidates to leetcode.

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