> Skip the LeetCode interviews/stop doing them and eventually they will go away
That is not an option in this environment; too many companies use that as the gatekeeper. From a company's point of view, if someone refuses to take the test, that's okay because there are hundreds of other applications who will gladly do it.
I have managed to avoid them in my 20 years in industry. I once interviewed and they wanted me to do a take home coding exercise to build a CI/CD system in Python (with a scheduler). No one does that - we use GitLab, Bamboo, Jenkins, etc.
Not a LeetCode example but my point is the coding exercises are silly.
(Plus Activision was apparently using Perforce at the time and not git)
That is not an option in this environment; too many companies use that as the gatekeeper. From a company's point of view, if someone refuses to take the test, that's okay because there are hundreds of other applications who will gladly do it.