The main advantage of these kinds of interviews are they scale when a company needs to hire thousands of engineers a year and can remain relatively consistent a

The main advantage of these kinds of interviews are they scale when a company needs to hire thousands of engineers a year and can remain relatively consistent at that scale. In theory, it's a pure test of solving a problem using code that is distinct from questions that need knowledge about particular technologies. You can give the same problem to frontend, backend, mobile, etc. candidates. You can ask them for any team. Mac, Linux, Windows: doesn't matter. You can deliver the question over the phone or video chat. No need to clone a repo, send a ZIP file with boilerplate. Interviewers and candidates don't have to fiddle with getting an environment set up because these questions rarely require anything more than standard library on coderpad.