Which good companies in the Bay Area don't do LeetCode style interviews for SWE positions?

I imagine this repo isn't tightly updated as job postings go down, but this should be helpful: https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards

In general though, it is very hard to avoid LeetCode entirely with an interview. I think the best you can do is LeetCode-Lite, where the company only has 1 DSA round and it's of easy/medium difficulty. I think it's worth spending 30-60 minutes a day doing basic DSA problems (i.e. avoid LeetCode hard).

When it comes to which companies do less LeetCode, it generally correlates with size. Smaller companies, especially cutting-edge startups, are less concerned about your abstract DSA ability and more so with your actual ability to build software. I talk about this in-depth in our job searching course across these lessons:

• Data Structures And Algorithms (DSA)
• Understanding Startup Interviews

At Robinhood, the interview was LeetCode-Lite in that I only had 1 DSA round. I actually didn't even finish the problem in that round and still got an offer! So even unicorns can potentially be LeetCode-Lite. What I will say though is that front-end engineering (web, iOS, Android) is more likely to have less LeetCode as it's more tangible.

I actually vaguely know the founder of this "no whiteboard" job board! https://www.nowhiteboard.org/