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The leetcode-style interview process has persisted at large tech companies because it scales well for training hundreds or thousands of interviewers, not because it predicts job performance well.
NeetCode argues coding interviews persist mainly because they scale across large organizations, not because they're a good predictor of on-the-job performance. ✦ AI generated
NeetCode (Navdeep Singh) · The Pragmatic Engineer · 2026-06-24 · original ↗
Companies have no real method for evaluating engineers – and likely never did. Neet believes the leetcode-style interview process has persisted because it scales well at large tech companies that need to train hundreds or thousands of interviewers, not because it predicts job performance well.
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- ·Companies lack a real method to evaluate engineers
- ·NeetCode: likely never had one
- ·Persisted for scalability, not accuracy
- ·Format trains hundreds or thousands of interviewers
- ·Fits needs of large tech companies
- ·Not because it predicts job performance well
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