A lot of FAANG engineers report that the interview was the hardest thing that they've done, harder than anything they do as part of their actual job

Been working for 7 years in mid/avg tier companies. I always get lower compensation and avg teams because of avg performance in interviews. But after joining a team, I turn out to be the go to person for solving everyone's problem. In next 6 months I get moved to better teams and better products, and the cycle repeats again in next 1yr.

Its part of entering a cult

Totally agreed. The interview has been more stressful than anything else!!!

We at least use somethings that are asked in the interviews like the maps, arrays etc. But what about government employees they don’t even work. Why do they even need exams and why do they have to study for years to crack it.

The answer is filtering out the competition and choosing the best out of them all.

Dick measuring contests , faang interviews in india

that day is not far away when institutes like Allen will be hosting jee like classes for leetcode gor students who could not get through tier 1 colleges

Looks to be old post 2021. Still true

Interviews I wouldn’t se are hard in terms of the questions asked. What makes it bad is factors out of your hand like actually getting the interview or getting rejected even after the interview goes well.

Also FAANG interviews are much harder in india apparently.

I don't see a point of solving a problem which already has an answer somewhere on the internet. A good programmer follows the rule of reusability. Use solutions that already exists and knows how to fit in the problem he faces. In few companies they let you use internet to solve a given problem. (Company name - hint: Pr*io) which is what we are gonna do on a daily basis. Memorizing the logic for every problem is a useless thing in today's world as we have huge systems in place to do the memorizing for us. The real strength is the ability to gather things and make them work.