coding interviews are changing

stop grinding Leetcode because I don't think it's the right way to practice for coding interviews anymore. Hey, I'm Tara. I'm a senior software engineer and I just finished a pretty intense job search and I landed at a top AI company. I've noticed that coding interviews have shifted a lot since the last time that I interviewed and I want to share out the three biggest things that I noticed. So the first thing I noticed is there's a lot less emphasis on get this thing working in the optimal time complexity and more emphasis on solving multi-part practical program. questions. The volume of code that you have to write in these interviews seems to be going up. I saw a lot of multi-part questions where first you'll start with a really simple implementation of the thing and then the interview will throw a more complex version at you practicing writing code in a timed fashion is actually quite important because of this. The second thing is I think there's more emphasis on reading code and this makes sense. People are not writing code by hand anymore. They are using AI agents to write code and reading a lot more code. And so I got some questions that were asking me to read a piece of code, understand what it's doing and usually they had bugs in them that I had to fix. Finally, I I noticed more emphasis on almost system design like discussion at the end of the coding interview. You didn't have to write any more code, but we would discuss things like, okay, what would we do if this crashed? How would we scale this to a million users? How would we deal with concurrency? Things like that. So I don't think that code is dead. I actually still think the fundamentals are extremely important. And code questions are a great way to practice the fundamentals. But I do think that I'm noticing this shift and I wanted to call it out. So, in my next video, I'm going to walk through building a simple rate limiter because I feel like it illustrates what I saw in my interviews as well, but it is not an exact question that I got. So, if you're interested in that, follow along and as always, thank you for learning along with me.