I recently went through an interview process at a few companies. One in NYC, London and Bermuda. The one in NYC required me to do a leetcode style algorithm que

I recently went through an interview process at a few companies. One in NYC, London and Bermuda. The one in NYC required me to do a leetcode style algorithm question. I somehow worked myself into a nervous wreck and bombed out even though I had prepared a lot and could have answered the question in my own time. I ended up landing the London gig and having a fantastic interview experience with the Bermudian company. They all had VASTLY different interview processes but it really made me realise how stupid that whole algorithm/whiteboard process is. I think this perception that the big 3 use it as a filter is even a bit lame and lazy. I've heard they do it because it's more costly to hire a dummy than to miss a star, but I would love to see the data around that. Unless of course they aren't interested in hiring "stars" and just want leetcode monkeys to file in and churn out code with perfect asymptotic behaviour.