PREFACE: LONG RANT
I dont know but Ill always remember the funniest thing I noticed once during my career in England..
A company called tripadvisor based in a very very small town where I was at the time a senior dev, working on my own things, had never reached out. yet I saw their ads and finally an actual article in a newspaper, basically where they were bragging about their latest hire. Let call him Pablo, who had apparently aced every single technical interview question, and so they had hired him, after interviewing tens of people. They were so happy with their hire, the article had been based on him and the "curiosity" that they were the first company to have hired him after he had failed I think it was something like 50 interviews.
Obviously they couldn't believe how lucky they were to have finally found someone who could have completed all the technical tests perfectly.
Now I have nothing against Pablo, and rooted for when when I read the article. But I found it hilarious, and still do almost a decade later, that this top tier company, based in a university town with perhaps the most famous university, had not realised they had simply over fitted for someone who could answer their leetcode selection perfectly. Not only not realised this but then commissioned the article.
Eventually they reached out for an interview with me where the recruiter promised there was no test for me, then I was "surprised by one" in a room with a manager who hadnt had time to read my expection ( which is fine ), but when he walked in and saw I hadn't done it I was "walked out". The whole interview having taken less than about 10 minutes, when I was the most qualified senior developer for hundreds of miles who was available at the time. No Im honestly not tryign to brag Im just saying the town was so small there just couldnt have been more during that short time period I was available.
I know this reads bitter,( my life is great now ) , I just remember it because, my point was at the time I was at my peak, and would have accepted the job if offered, but I was walked out within 10 mins.
Honestly just sharing this insight, the moral of the story I think for me is companies never were great hiring and well if anything the advent of LLMs might actually improve as LLMs start to assess people based on their profiles and work? One can hope, I dont, I want an edge in this market with my company.