I've hired a lot of people out of FAANG. In recent years, there are developers there who are extremely polished at these style of interviews, which makes them s

I've hired a lot of people out of FAANG. In recent years, there are developers there who are extremely polished at these style of interviews, which makes them seem very impressive, but don't know anything else. The minute you step outside what they've been practicing for, the façade of ability crumbles. Increasingly, I suspect these interviews are overfitting for people whose only skill is that they spend all their time practicing for these interviews. In my current hiring process, we've needed to do things to weed these people out because quite a few have been getting through the FAANG filter. I've worked at FAANG and gotten offers from the rest, but I can't view leetcode as anything but a hazing ritual at this point.