There is no grand conspiracy. People try to develop what they feel is a fair interview with good signals. It simply turns out that many people are not good at t

There is no grand conspiracy. People try to develop what they feel is a fair interview with good signals. It simply turns out that many people are not good at that and have biases that they may not even be aware of. Tackle on some cargo culting and "best practices" and you have your typical broken process. For those wondering what the alternative is to leetcode: a work sample test. Take a real problem your team solved recently, distill it down to remove internal-specific knowledge, and give candidates 3x the time to solve it compared to what it takes an internal dev to solve. Bonus points for having a rubric guide the scoring.