I have worked at Google for 7 years. I am a SWE and mostly agree with the parent. I am, I think objectively, a pretty good software engineer and often couldn't

I have worked at Google for 7 years. I am a SWE and mostly agree with the parent. I am, I think objectively, a pretty good software engineer and often couldn't solve my peers interview questions in the time allotted. I try to do my part by conducting interviews with questions that I think demonstrate the ability to actually code and think abstractly as opposed to regurgitating some random algorithm that has been memorized. I ask a simple CS 100-200 level, one-word-answer question about an algorithm and then move on to a coding question. Despite the difficulty of some of the questions that others ask, often the interviewer wants the interviewee to pass and so will throw a hint. It's important to keep commicating because that is how those hints will be delivered. Ironically, I never interviewed because I came in from an acquisition. Yes, I was very lucky.