> It's not something you can do if you have a full-time job > I find it unreasonable to ask a candidate to spend that much time And same for some reason does

> It's not something you can do if you have a full-time job > I find it unreasonable to ask a candidate to spend that much time And same for some reason does not apply to leetcode style interviews? > It would take something like one week full time to work on this I am not sure if this is satire or what? You need months of continuous preparation to be ready for the leetcode style interview. > Optimizing some generated code is certainly fun, but it's as useless as leetcode for your average programmer. No, it is not. This is specifically the type of job you would be doing tomorrow at Anthropic team if hired. And they are specifically hiring people who are already good enough at that very task. The same cannot be said for the leetcode, not even remotely comparable.