My issue is that when you are an experienced engineer, and you do not use those fundamentals daily you will simply forget them, even having learned them in the

My issue is that when you are an experienced engineer, and you do not use those fundamentals daily you will simply forget them, even having learned them in the first place, so the folks who pass those interviews are not the folks who do actual work on projects, but ones who practiced countless hours on LeetCode and or recently studying theory in order to game the interview system. Do you prefer a person who spent their last 6 months leetcoding or someone who has been working last 6 months on actual projects?