Everyone is forgetting why big companies do interviewing the way they do. It's the same reason the entrance criteria to elite universities are they way they are

Everyone is forgetting why big companies do interviewing the way they do. It's the same reason the entrance criteria to elite universities are they way they are. Last I read, Google has something like a thousand applicants for each position, each level of filtering reduces the amount by an order of magnitude for a position they may or may not fill so it becomes statistically harder than being accepted to Harvard. Likewise, people practice for these interviews harder than they do for college entrance exams and work on saying the exact things the interviewers want to hear. In essence, the filter is on this particular kind of "grinding" work ethic.