Practicing for coding interviews are to FAANG companies what the SATs were for the Ivy League. It's not about how smart you are or how well you will do. It's a

Practicing for coding interviews are to FAANG companies what the SATs were for the Ivy League. It's not about how smart you are or how well you will do. It's about how good you are at studying interview problems/the SAT. And even then it's a crap shoot if your admission reviewer/interviewer was in a good mood that day. As much as it's suboptimal/unfair/whatever your objection is, your options are to not play the game (and miss out on the wealth of opportunity or cash) or to dive on in and accept reality.