Comment by ryandvm

LLMs are the ultimate leetcode solvers because they're stellar at small, atomic, functional bits of code that, importantly, have already been done and written about before.

But at this point in time they are terrible about reasoning about novel or overly complex problems.

It is deliciously ironic that LLMs can absolutely crush the software engineering interview process, but frankly it's no surprise to those of us that have been complaining that whiteboard coding interviews are a bullshit way to hire senior software engineers.

I look forward to watching the industry have to abandon it's long held preference for an interview metric that has no predictive capability for software engineering success.