Articles on hiring from the CodePraxis team.
In July 2026, US employers still listed 7.3 million job openings, yet the hiring rate was just 3.2%, near its lowest since 2020. Applications per recruiter are up 412% since 2022. This is what's breaking between candidates and companies, and what replaces the shortcuts filling the gap.
Google measured its own interviews and found zero relationship with job performance. The algorithm interview has never been isolated and validated in the peer-reviewed record, not once. Here is what the research hierarchy actually shows, why AI finished off whatever was left, and what work-sample assessment replaces it with.
Google's own research found essentially zero correlation between algorithm interview scores and on-the-job performance. Work-sample tests outperform every other hiring method. So why is the industry still clinging to LeetCode? We dig into the data, the hidden costs, and the alternative that actually predicts engineering success.