[Aurornis]

> last time I interviewed for IC jobs, which was around 2017.

2017 was a long time ago in industry terms. The FizzBuzz article came out in 2007, your interviews were 10 years after that, and we’re now 7 years after that.

Things have changed a lot. It’s rare to encounter actual LC Hard problems in most interview loops. Most of the reports of LC Hards turn out to be Mediums upon closer examination. The current trend is for people to call anything a “hard” if they couldn’t get it, not necessarily because it came from an LC hard problem.

[timr]

I didn't quit working in tech in 2017. People are still using them -- I still see and hear interview questions -- I'm just not the one being interviewed.

I don't know how "rare" it is across an entire industry...but then again, no one does. You're asserting something you cannot possibly know.

> 2017 was a long time ago in industry terms.

Oh, stop it.