Sarah Hooker cheers killing Leetcode interviews: low correlation with real engineering
3scorciav · x · 2026-10-12
AI researcher Sarah Hooker (@sarahookr) celebrated the move away from Leetcode-style interviews, calling them merely an indicator of willingness to spend hundreds of hours on problems with very low correlation to day-to-day engineering. She endorses take-homes or live interviews on realistic codebases. Replies debate whether any interview process is gameable.
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