40 minutes as in 40 minutes of coding for a single interview question. Usually 20 minutes out of a given hour long interview is just BS resume and chit chat.

40 minutes as in 40 minutes of coding for a single interview question. Usually 20 minutes out of a given hour long interview is just BS resume and chit chat. And yes, there are often 5-6 interviews in a row. But that still leaves the fact that there is only so much that can be covered in an interview with 1 person in the 40 minutes you are given to code a problem. And those 40 minute coding problems are all taken straight out of cracking the code interview, most of the time. Even at Google. Process questions are good, and conversational interviews are also good. I wish people would do more of them. But unfortunately it is mostly just algo questions that you have to cram for.