>I think slowly the industry is moving away from no-leetcode, but it's going to take a generation or two of startups to really succeed at that, and most vital of all, it has to become a FB / Google level company that defines the industry for the next decade. The current millenial and gen z wave suffering under the leetcode regime and think it's bad need to become the next directors of companies and push for no leetcode in their interview processes. This is just starting to happen which why you see some companies like slack doing no-leetcode in their interview process.

in other countries LC is not that common

I've never been challenged with algo questions - just purely day2day stuff, but those were software houses interviews mostly.