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I currently work at Stripe and previously worked at Meta. I have recently started interviewing again to explore what’s out there and felt the need to practice solving Leetcode problems again and my experience has been awful. I have 4-5 years of competitive programming experience (reached red on topcoder and codeforces a decade ago) so things came back to me relatively quickly. But I really hated the fact that despite my industry experience and having advantage in competitive programming, I could still bomb coding interviews if it’s a stupid question that requires some trick. To my surprise, several companies had non-LC style coding interviews. They involved a practical easy problem that’s divided into multiple parts — I could really see how the interviewer can gather great signals on those problems vs hard algorithmic problems. To name drop a few companies: OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe (my current company) On the other hand, Meta is still asking those shit questions. Absolutely no change 10 years after my previous interview with them. As a candidate, do you prefer Leetcode or more practical questions?