> Additionally, no one in the panel was a software engineer ... for a software engineering position. None of the FANGs I know ever had non-software engineers i

> Additionally, no one in the panel was a software engineer ... for a software engineering position. None of the FANGs I know ever had non-software engineers interview candidates for SDE positions, specially when software development managers are primarily software engineers themselves and interviews have a considerable software development aspect. I'm sorry to say but your story doesn't add up.