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1. Retr0id · 1789835689 · focus · HN ↗

   Are there really jobs that still have leetcode style interviews, in the age of LLMs?

   1. drTobiasFunke · 1789835810 · focus · HN ↗

      Majority of big tech. Leetcode was 100% irrelevant to the job before LLM and its 100% irrelevant to the job today. So nothing has changed really
   2. KeplerBoy · 1789835941 · focus · HN ↗

      Why not? It seems more important than ever that people know how to actually code, now that everyone can produce endless code of untested quality.

      1. Retr0id · 1789836102 · focus · HN ↗

         If LLMs can oneshot leetcode puzzles, then surely leetcode isn't a good measure of whatever the remaining skills that matter are.

         1. dmoy · 1789837358 · focus · HN ↗

            Unless the interviews are brought back onsite I guess

            1. cooloo · 1789844590 · focus · HN ↗

               How is it related? What I would look in person is something LLM can't solve, otherwise why not using LLM. The fact that LLM know how to solve leeth code is just another proof it's useless metric
      2. rdbl27 · 1789836220 · focus · HN ↗

         Leetcode does not test your ability to code in the sense of anything related to real world engineering applications.

         Leetcode merely tests your ability to memorize and regurgitate algorithms from a textbook -- a skill that LLMs can now do a thousand times faster and more accurately than any human.

         It never had much to do with real world software engineering, and now it's even less relevant than ever.

      3. 0x20cowboy · 1789842350 · focus · HN ↗

         Knowing leetcode is not “knowing bow to actually code”. They are pointless puzzles for children.

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