I have 12+ years of experience. I get so much anxiety during leetcode interviews that I have trouble reading the word problem and understanding the question. My brain just goes haywire and I have to take deep breaths. Usually I get part 1 done/running and fail because I didn't make it past part 1. I can do just about any easy/medium problem on leetcode. Just can't code under pressure. I don't get anxiety in any other part of my life, ever. I think this speaks to how badly they are at sorting out the original goal of can this person write code, and do they know basic data structures.

I recently interviewed somewhere where I did a leetcode interview, then a take-home and then it felt like they didn't care about the 6+ hour takehome and made me do another leetcode. Pretty frustrating!

Thanks for the thread, it's nice to vent! It's also good to learn how to be a better interviewer, and write better interview problems. My favorite is a debugging interview, where there are like 4 bugs in the program and we work with the interviewee to solve the 4 issues. I'm sure there are problems with this style too, but it's far more practical...