personally, I ran take-homes at a lot of jobs in the late 2010s and that gave way more signal than the Roman numeral parser leetcode style question I asked beforehand, it was night and day
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when I ran tech at a startup, we'd just have a like, probationary day with the candidate working on what we were actually doing that day and then decide if we wanted to work together.
imo leetcode interviews are a ruse to cover for hiring based on interviewer bias.
I used to keep a folder of prints of subtle actual production bugs to ask candidates about. Didn’t really consider it a failure if they didn’t spot them (each was committed by a fairly senior dev) but if they saw and understood the bug it was a great sign.
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imo leetcode interviews are a ruse to cover for hiring based on interviewer bias.