I can tell you, that coming from a more traditional engineering background (electrical / control), I never - ever - encountered these types of questions. Even

I can tell you, that coming from a more traditional engineering background (electrical / control), I never - ever - encountered these types of questions. Even though the real-life work tasks could have catastrophic or extremely expensive consequences. As in shut down production on an oil rig. I've also worked as an analyst / data scientist, and didn't see too many leetcode-like questions there either. I think one big reason for this is that other professions have some quality assurance of their candidates through their education or certification. Whereas many companies are open to hire self-taught and similar people...yeah, I'm not 100% convinced about that either, because somehow companies will assume that a CS grad candidate can't code for shit, whereas traditional engineering companies will assume that a engineering grad candidate knows something. It seems to be unique to IT