[badlucklottery]

> It's more a measure of willingness to jump through hoops than your competence.

I'd say it's more a measure of how well you can learn an arbitrary skill. They could change it to solving Sudoku puzzles, grading SAT essays, or wood carving and most of the same people who do well in leetcode interviews would pick up those skills and ace the interviews.

But you don't need arbitrary skills, you need solid development skills to do the job. So they're always going to miss out on people who aren't good at learning arbitrary skills but already have solid development skills. But many big companies seem alright with that tradeoff.

[teratron27]

You're also biasing towards the type of person who is ok with either burning themselves out or skiving off work (or both) to get good at these types of interviews.

[majjgepolja]

> I'd say it's more a measure of how well you can learn an arbitrary skill.

Time is finite. You can learn to write better programs, or grind Leetcode. Leetcode interviews favor the one who can put enough time on the latter.

A better explaination is it's a chain reaction. People who know only to Leetcode enter the industry, and ask only Leetcode questions.