My understanding is that LC style interviews largely replaced "brain teaser", "how would you move mount fuji?" type questions so at least you're testing CS concepts and basic coding ability.
Cracking the Coding Interview came out in 2008 and had a short section talking about the Google interview process, which I believe was system design + a coding problem that would probably be close to a modern LC question.
Cracking the Coding Interview came out in 2008 and had a short section talking about the Google interview process, which I believe was system design + a coding problem that would probably be close to a modern LC question.