>As a college student looking for a job, a lot of this is quite worrying. I don't really know where to start as a junior developer and I have seen quite a bit o

>As a college student looking for a job, a lot of this is quite worrying. I don't really know where to start as a junior developer and I have seen quite a bit of this mentality that "we are looking for the best". Does anyone know how, from our corner, filter out companies that will do crazy stuff like make you barf up 30 sort algorithms? Don't sell yourself short. As a fresh college graduate, you have a totally clean slate. All companies, even the big 4, will give you a fair evaluation (or, at least in theory, try to) based on what you've been devoting your full time to studying for the last four years. I assure you that it becomes much, much harder to study anything or do much alter your career trajectory once you start working full time. Yes, you can find companies with easy interviews but, as user5994461 and others have pointed out, they tend to be somewhat mediocre, to put it charitably, in environment and pay. Do you really want to deliberately aim for mediocrity before your career has even started?