Yep, that all makes sense. FWIW, I agree we can do better than leetcode. I'm personally a fan of an approach I saw someone else describe here, where you liter

Yep, that all makes sense. FWIW, I agree we can do better than leetcode. I'm personally a fan of an approach I saw someone else describe here, where you literally have the candidate do a few-hours freelance gig for you, paid at a decent rate. Triage some of the low-priority bugs so when you're interviewing you have a little stack of relatively self-contained, well-defined tasks for candidates to pick from. Probably good to have someone pair with them, if the candidate is willing. You get to see them work in a real context, they get paid, you can learn about how they work, and it seems like a win-win to me. I also think it's good to be open to other options - if a candidate has a different way to show they'll be good at the job, let them do that. If burntsushi wanted to work on a company's CLI tools, I'd hope a link to the rg repo would satisfy everyone that he knows how to write a good CLI.