// Hacker Noon · 9 April 2026

The LeetCode Illusion: Why Coding Interviews Don't Measure Engineering Skill

LeetCode-style interviews were always a weak proxy for real engineering ability — and AI has made them even more outdated. Real engineering is about debugging messy systems, navigating ambiguity, and making tradeoffs, none of which a 20-minute algorithm problem can test. It's time for interviews tha...

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