I tried interviewing at a couple of FAANGs without the prescribed 'leetcoding' prep work. And failed each time. I see my career as being pretty successful despi

I tried interviewing at a couple of FAANGs without the prescribed 'leetcoding' prep work. And failed each time. I see my career as being pretty successful despite those failures, I'm not bitter about the interviews. I believe that passing these tests sends a strong positive signal. Failing the tests send a mild negative signal. But if you're paying top dollar you can afford false negatives especially if you can preserve as many true positives as possible. If there's a downside it's probably that they are stacking their deck with extreme outliers. Maybe this process ends up selecting undesirable qualities not tested in interviews. All that said, this was an entertaining read.