The arms race of coding interviews legitimately keeps some of the best most experienced candidates out of the candidate pool, replacing them with newbies who ha

The arms race of coding interviews legitimately keeps some of the best most experienced candidates out of the candidate pool, replacing them with newbies who have time to make cheat sheets with every new type of leer code question, and maybe that’s the goal. When question lookup, exchange, cheating etc happens, it makes interviewers pick and design increasingly harder questions over time. That makes it impossible to pass interviews without months of prep memorizing/practicing the majority of latest questions, or cheating. What you lose are ethical candidates, or those with better things to do on their hands. That may be a feature and not a bug - you are left with those who will do the grind and do whatever it takes, until burning out in their own turn. After all the most intense hiring competition happens right out of college - capturing the developers with little experience, a lot of energy, and complete nativité on burnout. The companies that cause the most burnout, are the most intense competitors in that space too.