Comment by jeffreyrogers

I do a lot of interviews for my employer and anecdotally the current batch of college hires seems worse at answering the questions I give them than prior groups. I try to avoid leetcode style questions unless they tell me they've done competitive programming. Typically I ask a somewhat open ended question that requires implementing some complicated but not particularly tricky business logic. I used to be able to ask a few follow-up questions that added additional requirements but lately I've found candidates struggle to even finish the original question. It may not matter since the reality is LLMs could handle the sort of questions I ask just fine, but I do wonder what the long-term affects of this decrease in coding fluency will be.