What I'm seeing is that a majority of companies are doing 1.5 - 3 hour leetcodes as an automatically generated first step, akin to Amazon. I haven't yet passed Amazon's test, but I suppose if I spent time trying to get there, it would hypothetically carry over to other leetcode interviews. The problem is that getting a job is a crazy numbers game, and if it takes 3 hours to apply to a single job, realistically I have to stay unemployed and grind those for 10 hours a day to even have a shot. Admittedly it's not quite there yet, but it's pretty bad. Companies now have an extremely cheap way to search for and normalize all candidates, sometimes spending as little as 30 mins to 1 hr of their own time per successful applicant that makes it to the end. Not that I necessarily want to work for a company that does this, but it's a bit scary.

It's not just tech either. I just spoke to a random dude on the street who expressed uneasiness at his automated robot interview (his words) for a part-time delivery driver position. 50 self-administered questions, 1 audio recording, and then a follow up where I think he gets to answer similarly delivered questions to an automated system. It's a bit distopian.