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The trouble is that AI assistants have seen all of the contrived algorithmic problems before. I once interviewed a candidate for whom Copilot spat the answer out as soon as he typed the function signature. Whether these problems are a good idea in the first place is a separate discussion, but as it stands the AI seems to just sidestep the whole thing.

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I refuse interviews that include shit like leetcode currently, as they are a waste of time, and I’m glad that LLM’s are ruining them.

I hate them too, but I'll put up with them out of necessity if the product or company mission's interesting to me.

Ironically, the most interesting positions I've held have almost universally been at companies that don't have leetcode-style questions as part of the hiring process.

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