LeetCode is dead. Developers don't write code line-by-line anymore. They orchestrate AI agents working in parallel, review AI-generated code, and make architectural decisions. That's the job now. But most interview processes haven't caught up. They still test algorithm memorization instead of AI fluency, code review, and judgment. We're building... assessments for next-gen hiring that mirror how developers actually work. Here's how we think about it:show more

Killer lines of this ad-- If your interview process requires candidates to pretend that AI doesn't exist. Then you're testing for a job that no longer exist. 👏

We whole heartedly believe in those words!

Finally, someone in the market understood this, startup’s have already realised this, and now MNCs will too, it’s not about coding line by line of using leetcode, it’s AI, Agents, System Design, Problem solving with ai These are what is required to crack a job in this market. Thanks HackerRank for realising it and working to improve and improvise this.

We hope so too, we really want to help make this change.

okay 🧐

It's sad that you guys spent actual money to create a really well produced and directed ad that goes nowhere. You haven't even announced a competing product to leetcode. It's catchy, humor is on point, but I mean, we all know what you guys are saying, show something.

yea fk dsa

really cool to see how agent orchestration might play into technical interviews!

Btw.

Not quite. We're not saying LeetCode the company is dead. We're saying that testing algorithm memorization instead of the skills developers actually use today should cease to exist.

@Itstheanurag its not just algorithm memorization, but they also know what optimizes a algorithm. its a way of thinking and a person who can do dsa can as well be the better agentic developer as the knowledge needed to fix this gap is very small and trivial for them

@Itstheanurag And we agree, that is an important skill to have. But, is it the only skill that someone should be assessed on while being hired? Absolutely not.

The new interview

Leetcode is still a measure of how well they (anyone) understands the basic theory underpinning the implementations. When I do a malloc in C I am not anytime planning to implement malloc myself.. But I understand the cost.. I understand where that pointer came from. I understand what it means to write or read beyond the end of the block of memory that I requested from malloc. It's so very cool we have tools to automate the creation of code for us now.. But these tools are not perfect.. Not always optimal. If you can't read what they are generating.. Well eh..

🙂 just when i thought I'd get serious about LeetCode

this is actually the right path forwRs

Hit me up! I've been working on a platform for this for a bit. Fix evals and interviews may just feel like they surface more useful signal.

I see @OjashKush 👀

Leetcode is not dead by a long mile, a proficient leetcoder is most likely to be the better developer, the agentic prompting gap is tiny ,human thinking gap is huge when compared to another dev

An era has changed.

it's crazy how many companies still test loop syntax when the actual day-to-day is babysitting agent dags. wrote a breakdown of what top teams actually interview for now:

@drago999765 Get ride of DSA rounds 🙏

Shift is coming 💪

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Even tho that ever they say is right, but this is not the right way of doing things while you are learning, as they said, whatever code is written, the next-gen engineers have to assess the code before they merge it. For that you need to know whether the code is right, wrong or needs some tweaking, which can only be done if they know how to code line by line and only if they know the fundamentals. So get your asses and learn to code.

Huge props! This makes me extremely bullish on this company but also in the SWE space because you are totally correct. swe is not like it used to be and leet coders are pretty much obsolete. many companies these days are hiring people who memorized how ro invert a binary tree over people who can actually ship software that scales.

"review AI generated code" means they still need to know the basics

If the job becomes “monitoring agents”, we didn’t eliminate LeetCode; we just replaced it with a different kind of busywork. Building systems still requires understanding them.

@kostyafarber_ the hypocrisy 😂

"Leetcode is dead that's why all our assessments still involve leetcode style questions."

thanks. its kinda strange to be tested with 5 rounds of LC hards just to supervise multiple agents. then change job only to get more LC hards, just to then supervise more agents LOL

Shut the fuck up.

recently took the hackerank ai based assessment it was one of the worst ai assessment test i ever took please avoid this shit company

Finally someone saying it out loud. LeetCode-style interviews testing algo memorization while real jobs have shifted to orchestrating AI agents, reviewing code, and making smart architectural calls. HackerRank cooking with this one

@grok can you summarize this video?

So how to prepare for interviews as a fresher!?

@hackerrank do one thing if you really want to push this thinv remove the option fir leetcode types interviews entire in your software

Dsa tests are effectively IQ measures. They measure critical thinking beyond an established problem space. They are condensed expressions of a full curriculum. What you're proposing doesn't challenge that, at all. Entirely different interview steps.

@Tak291 thoughts?

Ik for a fact DSA is still being asked... dont tell me that yall are planning to start some system design subscription based thing... 101 sys design interview question pay ₹499 type shit

So DSA business is dead?