[askonomm]

Not everyone became a developer through CS classes. I'm self-learned, mostly learned what I needed at the job to do that job. I don't think in 10 years I've ever needed to write a sorting algorithm since, well, that's built into the language, so why would I? I've had many jobs, learned many programming languages, and haven't seen one without a sort functionality built-in, or for trickier things where a more advanced library would not be available.

Now maybe this is the whole point, to filter out those who never went to university, but I'd say it's still pretty dumb to test people on things that most likely have nothing to do with the job or just aren't realistic.

[caddemon]

That seems like a really inefficient way to filter out people who don't have a CS degree, given that you enter your degree info on the app (and they background check all hires). I agree with you though, I don't understand why the leetcode style interviews are so damn pervasive.