Senior engineers welcome the decline of coding-test-only hiring bars
kscottz · x · 2026-10-28
Engineer kscottz reacts to a post about tech hiring, glad the industry has moved past treating 'stupid programmer tests' as the sole hiring bar — noting that many senior engineers, himself included, find such tests insulting and would avoid companies that rely on them, a sign of ongoing pushback against LeetCode-style interview culture.
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