Upvoted because I think you bring up an important question. In many ways, leetcode style whiteboard exams are the BarrierToEntry(TM) for our field. My problem

Upvoted because I think you bring up an important question. In many ways, leetcode style whiteboard exams are the BarrierToEntry(TM) for our field. My problem with this analogy is that our field has no examinee "bill of rights" that slowly evolved over time (often hundreds of years or more) in some of these other fields. We (software developers) have no idea who will be conducting our exam, how they will be grading it, or whether it will be done consistently. We don't know if the graders are competent. There is no clear and defined study path, nor do we get any feedback. The exams appear very suddenly, when we get an offer for an interview, we have very little control over how and when the exam will take place. And lastly, we take them again and again and again, every time we interview. I've read that people suggest several hundred hours of prep on leetcode to get ready. When I interviewed at Google, my lunch interviewer (no coding, just a conversation) told me that when he got an offer for an interview, he asked for and received well over 6 months to prep, and he studied intensely the entire time. Now, for the bar, I'd understand this, because passing the bar doesn't require getting hired by a particular firm. But if he'd missed google? Well... I suppose there are other companies, and the prep would have you ready. But also - these interviews can take all day, and there may be multiple rounds. Hundreds of hours of study and several all day exams? That actually sounds like something approaching the bar - but for just one company that can capriciously throw you out, with secretive processes and no accountability at all. Law firms don't run the bar exam. They respect the results, and I suppose some might volunteer or work as professionals, but Dewey Cheatum and Howe does't run the bar. Also, large law firms don't claim that there is a critical shortage of lawyers to hire, all while running a makeshift, privately administered bar exam that they acknowledge results in an extraordinary high false negative rate. I'm not sure if there is a great alternative to leetcode interviews, and I actually do respect the right of high tech companies to hire as they please. But I sure have no sympathy for companies that rely on these interviews and then wail about a shortage of people to hire.