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I don't think his statement, while bold, is at all unfounded. If he truly was rejected for not being able to invert a binary tree on a whiteboard, but has a pro

I don't think his statement, while bold, is at all unfounded. If he truly was rejected for not being able to invert a binary tree on a whiteboard, but has a proven track record of writing excellent software, I would agree with him that there are some serious issues with the Google/Leetcode/2nd-year-CS-trivia style of interviews.

BeetleB 7y ago
>I would agree with him that there are some serious issues with the Google/Leetcode/2nd-year-CS-trivia style of interviews. I think both you and your parent are in violent agreement. It's not as if many people who were in FAANG haven't admitted there are serious issues with the interview process. Even advocates of the process are open about it. No one has found an interview process that lacks serious issues. Hiring people solely on the basis of major contributions to software has its own serious issues.