> We keep seeing posts like these on HN/Reddit, yet companies keep using them.

Just because you see them, doesn’t mean they’re correct. They’re just a breeding ground for holy wars and discussions. On every post like that you can find tons of “I don’t like them, we need something better and no I don’t know what”. But if you dig into comments you usually find why those type of interviews are done.

You are learning that perceived consensus on an upvote/downvote site doesn’t mean much because if 60% of people agree with something because of upvotes it seems like 99% do. Reddit rediscovers this every election.

People often downvote thoughtful discussions they disagree with. It’s tiresome to see your text fade with downvotes so often people don’t bother.

If you hang out on Hacker News you might also think every engineer thinks crypto is a scam and no engineers want to return to the office. Neither situation is the case but if you disagree with the majority on those topics you will get downvoted to oblivion, your comments won’t be visible after a point, so why bother?

I personally don’t care about the endless leetcode debate but it’s a bummer there’s so much exciting technological advances in crypto that can’t be discussed on this site without an army of “crypto=scam” bros emerging from the woodworks.