Good luck on convincing people about that. When there are more qualified people than slots, the tried, tested and fair method of selection is a lottery. It has

Good luck on convincing people about that. When there are more qualified people than slots, the tried, tested and fair method of selection is a lottery. It has its own set of cons though (imagine repeatedly getting shafted in the lottery, which a very small minority is going to face. What are you going to do, throw a statistics book in their face?). More than that, it is the illusion of merit. A lottery is an admission that the level of talent required to be productive at these big companies is vastly overstated and that the algorithmic puzzles are just eyewash. That is way too much truth. OTOH, Passing these interviews gives you that chip on your shoulder that you passed a high hiring bar. Of course, I'm sure you know all the memorizing it took, and how you got lucky that a question you revised was asked at the interview and you feigned ignorance. It will take a critical mass of people who are willing to call out this bullshit and maybe a few really egregious cases that go viral before people start to push-back on this.