LeetCode interviews for embedded roles are broken.
You're hiring someone to write interrupt handlers, manage DMA, debug race conditions on bare metal...
So you ask them to reverse a linked list?
80% of LeetCode-style interview questions are irrelevant for embedded engineers. You're filtering for algorithmic cleverness, not hardware intuition.
What you should test instead:
- Reading a schematic and identifying the bug
- Explaining what happens when you dereference a NULL pointer on their target MCU
- Writing an ISR that doesn't trash the stack
- Debugging a timing issue with only a logic analyzer
LeetCode tests if they can pass an interview.
A 30-minute hardware debug session tests if they can do the job.
Embedded hiring managers: Stop copying FAANG. Build interviews that match your domain.
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