Interviews are two way. 80% of people in the applicant pool are hopeless. And so are 80% of companies hiring for these spots. You should probably expect to tur

Interviews are two way. 80% of people in the applicant pool are hopeless. And so are 80% of companies hiring for these spots. You should probably expect to turn down a number of companies you applied for. If you're at a senior level, the dynamic is reversed. There's probably more rejection by applicants than by companies. Interviews filter for a certain kind of candidate. If an interview is all leetcode problems, then you end up with an engineering culture that only knows how to solve leetcode. If the process favors people who get shit done in 2 hours, then the engineers will mostly be people who only know how to hack things in 2 hours.