When searching for jobs, I actually find the interview process of a company to be an extremely useful filter/signal. I tend to outright reject companies who ha

When searching for jobs, I actually find the interview process of a company to be an extremely useful filter/signal. I tend to outright reject companies who have interview processes like Google's. At its best, it filters for a set of qualities that have little correlation with qualities of people whom I tend to enjoy working with professionally, and at its worst, can be easily gamed by anyone who's willing to play the interview prep game, which further reduces the quality of candidates that the process lets through. This means even if I end up getting the job at a company with an interview process like Google's, I'm unlikely to be surrounded by people who I enjoy working with. Even if I somehow get lucky and everybody at the company turns out to be amazing at the moment I join, the fact that their interview process is essentially a crapshoot means that wont stay true for very long as the company scales up and the law of large numbers kicks in.