Leetcode feels meritocratic. I suspect many people (engineers perhaps more so) don't trust their ability to "size someone up" from 45 minutes of casual conversa

Leetcode feels meritocratic. I suspect many people (engineers perhaps more so) don't trust their ability to "size someone up" from 45 minutes of casual conversation alone. Or worse, they worry that they'll have to defend their hire/donthire based on what amounts to a casual conversation whereby they were trying to judge character, affability, confidence, drive, motivation.... Leetcode is lazy, easy.