> I have not been tested on the fundamentals of programming taking interviews from FAAGM and other famous tech companies. Instead I've been asked "puzzle" quest

> I have not been tested on the fundamentals of programming taking interviews from FAAGM and other famous tech companies. Instead I've been asked "puzzle" questions that generally have nothing to do with the millions of lines of code I've written in the past nor anything to do with what I will do for the company. All those questions on leetcode are 95% unrelated to actual problems IMO. > 95% of every web app, mobile app, or native app is just very basic stuff. How often do you need to be able reverse the first half of signally linked list? Or compute the most amount of water that will fill a vertical grid. Or find the largest rectangle in a bitmap. Or divide to giant integers. Or solve sudoku puzzles? I accept your point. But I do believe the much more interesting question to ask is: why do they do these puzzle questions instead of questions that are at least somewhat related to actual programming problems that might occur as part of the prospective job?