I think you might be conflating two things: - resume keyword scan (automated or otherwise) - leetcode interviews The former I think you’re spot-on. If you’re

I think you might be conflating two things: - resume keyword scan (automated or otherwise) - leetcode interviews The former I think you’re spot-on. If you’re serious about hiring, some qualified to do so needs to be reading resumes. The latter is complicated. I tend to agree that the industry has over-pivoted to “dynamic programming whiteboard puzzle” as the LSAT of high-paying software work. But while most seem to agree that leetcode interviews suck in tons of ways, something that is unambiguously superior seems to be an open problem. And some algorithms and data structure testing is important for hard software work. Even choosing the right library requires some basics. Is every SWE at Amazon implementing CS papers every month? No, clearly not. But unless machine resources are free in your domain, brute-force doesn’t always work. FANG people do in fact get elitist about their CMU educations. But there’s another crowd that throws the baby out with the bath water: “I solve business problems, not reverse linked lists.” Well, what kind of business problems don’t involve some computation? It’s a balance that our industry seems to still be trying to find.