Depends on your target salary and luck. I do not earn a FAANG salary but my interview was a single 1 hour session where I showed them a few of my github project

Depends on your target salary and luck. I do not earn a FAANG salary but my interview was a single 1 hour session where I showed them a few of my github projects and talked shop. My impression is most people going for high salaries need to do the leetcode grind and 8+ stages of interviews though.