the interview process does not optimize for great people with relevant experience but for those who repeatedly grind leetcode problems irrelevant to the job. i

the interview process does not optimize for great people with relevant experience but for those who repeatedly grind leetcode problems irrelevant to the job. i interviewed a while ago at a FAANG where they had a long standing problem related to their OS. i knew the solution because i recently brought a product to market built on top of a similar OS and had to address the same problem. but it was more important to them i passed their coding test within a few minutes, and that i choose the optimum solution, which can only be found if you can spend an hour thinking about it. i bombed the interview due to not being used to coding interviews and having to talk while i think, and having to do all this in a few minutes. they are probably still wondering how to fix their problem.