[_qulr]

> what other scalable solution do we have other than LeetCode type of questions?

This question is based on a flawed assumption that interviews need to be "scalable".

If you're interviewing more than 3 or 4 candidates for a senior position, you're probably doing almost everything wrong, starting with your method of finding candidates. (Job postings are almost universally terrible. Why is everyone so bad at it? I don't want to hear excuses like "HR". If hiring engineers is crucial for the company, then you need to fight HR.) You may need to interview only 1 or 2.

Don't "screen" a bunch of people. That's a giant waste of everyone's time, both employers and candidates. Start at the top of your list, and only interview your top candidates. Spend the time to research those few individuals — even before you interview them — instead of spreading out your time relatively equally on a large number of candidates.

[google234123]

This will just interview people with the best resumes and will be biased.

[_qulr]

Yes, that's the point. If you're hiring a senior engineer, you want to be biased toward the people with the best resumes. Insanely, the current system is actually biased against them and in favor of freshly minted comp sci graduates.

[google234123]

You'll probably be biased in worse ways too. That was my point.

[_qulr]

This is a strange point. The empirical results from audition-style interviews have been in for many years, and the results are indisputable. Software engineering is extremely lacking in diversity. So maybe try something else for a change? Not sure how it could possibly be worse than what has already been demonstrated over and over again to be absolutely awful.

My suggestion isn't particularly novel. It's often how hiring works in other industries that aren't as insane as tech. Software engineers have their own special snowflake hiring process that they hold onto almost like a cult. They rhetorically ask "What's the alternative?" without actually empirically looking at the rest of the world outside of software engineering. The fact that "FizzBuzz" and "LeetCode" are words everyone recognizes just shows how much of a cargo cult software engineering has become.