In the last 10 years this is how I got my last 3 jobs: single stage 30-45 minute technical conversation with a lead engineer. I had other multi-stage interviews

In the last 10 years this is how I got my last 3 jobs: single stage 30-45 minute technical conversation with a lead engineer. I had other multi-stage interviews that went nowhere. Those were not FAANG companies obviously, but FAANG are overrated anyway. I'd rather be a big fish in a small pond. Bottom line is - if a company actually wants to hire, they don't waste time. I've met engineers from other companies at meetups who told me they have rejected every single candidate because they didn't want to hire, management was pushing them to. Others said they have deliberately chosen "Elite Language X" to weed out "bad developers" and so on.