Stripe's former CTO said that the company's technical interviews were meant to give candidates "the most realistic experience" they could.

LeetCode is dead. Not outdated. Not broken. Dead. And the thing that killed it? Wasn’t AI. It was Two Broke College Kids and a Screenshot Tool. LeetCode is over. And it wasn’t AI that ended it ...

When coding problems were taken verbatim from LeetCode, job candidates using ChatGPT solved correctly 73% of the time, interviewing.io found.

The old playbook—LeetCode, a round of system design, resume screens—was built for a world where engineers worked on scoped tickets in stable stacks.