Comment by karaterobot

That's definitely up to the interviewer, in which a lot of discretion and trust has been placed. I think a lot of it also comes down to the culture of the company—whether they're cutthroat or supportive. As you get better people into the company, hopefully this improves over time. I know that when we did it, it was never about nailing it on the first try, it was literally about proving you knew how to program and were not an asshole. So, not the equivalent of reversing a binary tree on a whiteboard. The kinds of problems we worked on in the interviews weren't leetcode type problems, they were real tickets from our current project. Sometimes it was just doing stuff like making a new component or closing a bug, but those were the things we really did, so it felt like a better test.