I recently started getting back into interviewing after 8 years of working at one company.

And Leetcode is not the worst part of it.

Modifying CV, applying, hostile forms, receiving rejection after rejection. Not getting what I am missing.

Leetcode in this scenario is puzzle solving game with clear rules, progress and success definition.

Some of the problems are genuinely fun, like dynamic programming. Some of them are just, "you have to know the trick".

In my case, i would never be able to even get an actual interview if not for these technical screens where you solve a problem and not try to persuade another human to give you a chance.

I think the ideal goal of an interview is to make a prediction of how happy and productive the candidate will be in the role they are being considered for. In a perfect world, that would be a collaborative effort between the company and the candidate, because they both should care deeply about the accuracy of those predictions. Unfortunately interviews often take on an adversarial/guarded dynamic that reduces the quality of those predictions. I believe that LeetCode style interviews make the predictions worse, and not only because they encourage that negative dynamic.

Even if you think that LeetCode evaluates how smart someone is, that's not what companies should be trying to measure. It doesn't matter how smart someone is if those smarts won't be put to good use. One of the smartest people I ever worked with was an amazing fit and launched the team to new heights. Another of the smartest people I ever worked with was a net negative for team productivity because he was such a jerk to people that those people would spend tons of their time and energy to find ways to avoid working with him. Despite all his smarts, he was a terrible match for the role and therefore was not productive. Being a jerk in some environments might even be a positive, but that's part of evaluating fit.

The vast majority of jobs on there says they do take home (ignoring the fact that it's not all dev jobs).

Take homes are somehow worse. It self selects for people who have ample time and no family obligations. I'd rather do leetcode

The vast majority of listings I scrolled through were jobs that wouldn't normally have a leetcode interview, given that, you know, they weren't jobs involving coding at all. Even when filtered to software development, the vast majority were not coding positions.

Any way to filter to that?

Are there really jobs that still have leetcode style interviews, in the age of LLMs?

Soon this will be jobs that will use Leetcode in person.

How about jobs without KPIs? Jobs without performance reviews? Can we get a list of jobs where I don’t have to do any work?

Jobs are full of things we don’t like or don’t want to do. I don’t understand this fixation on leetcode as unacceptable because some people feel it’s not related to the work? So is being likeable!