[Breaking] Interviews at FAANG will no longer focus on LeetCode, instead they will leverage real world skills using AI.

Meta has already started the process of phasing out LeetCode, and instead having candidates do real world tasks during the onsite, where AI use is allowed: [https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ai-job-interview-coding/](https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ai-job-interview-coding/) >“AI-Enabled Interviews—Call for Mock Candidates,” a post from earlier this month on an internal Meta message board reads. “Meta is developing a new type of coding interview in which candidates have access to an AI assistant. This is more representative of the developer environment that our future employees will work in, and also makes LLM-based cheating less effective.” Amazon is another FAANG who has said through internal memos that they will change the interview process away from LeetCode, and focus on AI coding instead, with an emphasis on real-world tasks. Other FAANGs, and hence other tech companies are likely to follow. ***What this means:*** The focus will shift away from LeetCode and algorithmic type questions. Instead, the candidate will need actual engineering skills that are representative of real world work.