there's plenty of ways to gauge someone's technical competency without asking quiz style questions or leet-code questions in the interview. your classic whiteb

there's plenty of ways to gauge someone's technical competency without asking quiz style questions or leet-code questions in the interview. your classic whiteboard - manual way, using physical from or the whiteboarding web tools. you can discuss design patterns, how they would solve issues you've ran into in production and compare approaches. it seems as if software 'engineers' are the only snowflakes that have to go through this ritual.