Of the companies I have interviewed at in the recent years, including a subset of FAANG companies (Facebook, Apple, Google), I think the Facebook process was th

Of the companies I have interviewed at in the recent years, including a subset of FAANG companies (Facebook, Apple, Google), I think the Facebook process was the most humane. Besides a sprinkling of recruiter calls, the process consisted mostly of a 1 hour coding challenge while also talking on the phone, plus an "onsite" of 4 interviews. I say "onsite" because this was in COVID times, so it was still on video chat / coder pad. Now Apple, yeah, that was like 5 rounds. I wrote about that previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26226809 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26226809 I still agree that the Leetcode interview (and perhaps many interview types in general) promote human misery and does not really do that great of a job of selecting for people to do well at their jobs. Getting better at it involved repeated failing at it in painful ways and a little studying. Not to mention all the days off to spend a day writing on white boards. One more aside: don't make jokes about coding on a whiteboard or using whiteboard-based version control, as funny as these jokes are, you will just come off as arrogant.