I would be the first to say our interview process is broken but frankly, if you don't want to participate you can find jobs that don't require CS/Algo. If you w

I would be the first to say our interview process is broken but frankly, if you don't want to participate you can find jobs that don't require CS/Algo. If you want to get those juicy pay checks from FANG and top startups, then you have to play the game. The point of those questions is not that you might need that knowledge at work. It is to make sure you can learn something difficult to learn. Trust me, once you join those big companies, there are a lot of difficult to understand concepts. They are not exactly the Leetcode questions but difficultly to understand and work on it is similar.