Every few weeks this topic comes up and the complaint is always the same: Coding interviews have nothing to do with day-to-day work. But who says that this is t

Every few weeks this topic comes up and the complaint is always the same: Coding interviews have nothing to do with day-to-day work. But who says that this is the goal of those interviews? Maybe these companies simply want young, ambitious and smart people and their coding interviews measure exactly that: Young (has enough time practicing leetcode questions), ambitious (is willing to spend time practicing leetcode questions) and smart (recently graduated and still has detailed CS and algorithmic knowledge in mind and is mentally capable of solving algorithmic problems).