My current job? sure, mostly due to the fact that I am at a company that doesn't do leet code style interviews. Many years ago however, I got into a FAANG via

My current job? sure, mostly due to the fact that I am at a company that doesn't do leet code style interviews. Many years ago however, I got into a FAANG via a "side channel", working as a a support engineer for ~1 year before I managed to impress a manager in the proper product engineer org (whom I and my team worked with closely), and didn't have to suffer through a traditional FAANG style interview as a result. Best opportunity of my life on accident, turns out. Pretty sure that on my resume opened more doors for me than anything else. I'd never pass that interview process, yet proof is in the pudding that I did well, I rose the ranks over 5 years before leaving due to not wanting to relocate for a bigger promotion.