Or you can ask them to code up some algorithms. The companies paying the best choose to do this, and they grew and became much larger than the companies that didn't do it this way, so now most companies do it this way.

leetcode BS interviews are a quite recent fad.

Yeah, if you’re old enough to consider Microsoft doing them in the 90s a recent fad, sure.

you'd be shocked how much bullshit occurs on universities across the world, even in EU.