from the comments: > I'm not trying to defend all current interviewing practices, but Leetcode-style interviews became popular because they're designed to find

from the comments: > I'm not trying to defend all current interviewing practices, but Leetcode-style interviews became popular because they're designed to find people who are good at programming without requiring overly specialized knowledge about specific tools that are popular right now but may not be in a few years. The idea is to find someone who can reliably learn what they need to know for the job rather than finding someone who's an expert in X and Y which you currently happen to be using. I use synthetic / algorithmic questions for this purpose. I don't need tool specialists, I need people with wider skills. I also like concocting fizzbuzz variants as a high pass filter. Some people fail them...