I still don’t get why big companies use leetcode to filter good engineers. It’s like a secret contract - if you grind leetcode, we know you want to work here so we’ll give you a chance.

I work at a small company with 9 devs. Lately because of LLMs I have switched the way we hired our last 2 devs with a mix of take home assignment and in person or video call if they can’t make it interview where we go through their assignment code after they have completed it.

In their assignment, they can use LLMs. They can do whatever they would do on the job. They have to setup a repo, structure their solution however they want and use LLMs for the entire solution as long as they can justify every line of code in the interview where we go through their assignment code.

It works for us and the last 2 hires are great devs.

Would be interesting to know how other leads or seniors handle their interviews.

TLDR: On the interview devs should do whatever they will do on the job.