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> If the interview for a coding job doesn’t involve actual coding, how do you know that the candidate can code?

LeetCode problems seldom resemble real-life coding scenarios, which in theory is what you are supposed to be most concerned with.

Why not present them with a real problem that you actually had to solve for your business? And ask them to walk you through how they would try to solve that? Perhaps as part of a take-home assignment?

Leetcode test or nothing is a false dichotomy. Accepting it is lacking without attempting to look into alternatives doesn’t seem logical.

>You can certainly memorize solutions

You can most certainly memorize the high level steps to LC problems. In fact I would argue that this is already the status quo. You may still be able to learn how they would approach a problem this way, but if they are good at “selling themselves” they can make all that “seem” real as well.