[whitehexagon]

30 years of freelancing and most interviews (Europe) have just been conversations, first with business, and then with a couple techie team members. Which always felt like more of a 'does he fit in' type approach.

The business side along the lines of 'what value can you add', and the technical side was more about describing problems you had discovered, communicated about, fixed, and details about the methodology, or APIs involved.

I rejected interview requests with google et al knowing of the time wasting LC approach. I think most developers are there to solve real world business problems, not rewrite an OS, although actually that is currently my hobby project :)

With AI assist, the focus on solving business problems comes back to the forefront, and the LC can be done by the AInt so bad coder. Or I think it was mentioned here recently that coders will soon be relegated to AI reviewers, what a horrible thought.

In summary ;) I think I'd be interviewing programmers focusing more based on business domain knowledge at this point.