[null_investor]

Leetcode and coding competition problems were never once thought to be a good representation of our ability or skill in the Software Engineering area.

It just became really important in the last decade or so with Big Tech using them to filter candidates as a proxy for intelligence and dedication.

It makes sense for Big Tech to use it because they are huge companies, and often enough their engineering talent will work in very specific projects, rarely building features using a popular framework or OSS tools.

90%+ of the companies still don't use that method because they hire people that can use popular OSS tools to build software for them.

So they look instead to judge your experience in a certain framework, language or infrastructure piece.

So overall, I believe nothing has changed.

Mathematicians will still need to learn to solve integrals and remember rules without a calculator to pass their tests.

Coders that want to join Big Tech will still often have to do leetcode challenges without AI until they find a better way to filter for intelligence and drive.