Many interviews are not pure whiteboard algos. And many interview processes are different, each company is unique. When I interviewed a couple of years ago, I

Many interviews are not pure whiteboard algos. And many interview processes are different, each company is unique. When I interviewed a couple of years ago, I saw various kinds of interviews at companies: * 1-2hr on site coding exercise, with the internet, alone. * 'Here is a 100loc piece of code, fix all the problems with it'. * Chat with product / manager / team lunch. ('Are you an asshole' test / 'culture' interview / scenario testing) * Design / outline an app that does X, with boxes and lines on a whiteboard. * Solve this algorithmic problem on a white board / on your computer. The reason why everyone freaks out about the algo interview it's the only interview type that most engineers have to prepare for. The other 4 usually you don't have to do much prep work at all.