FAANGMULA and all companies inspired by them have a completely broken interview process, this is the root of everything A normal interview these days is 38 min

FAANGMULA and all companies inspired by them have a completely broken interview process, this is the root of everything A normal interview these days is 38 minutes (45 minutes minus 2 minutes introductions and 5 minutes for interviewee questions at the end), times 5 or 6. Some leetcode, some Jedi (cultural fit), a design sketching or 2. People just go hard on leetcode, grokking system design, and memorize a few situational answers in STAR format and they're good to go. How good will they be at identifying why the Kafka consumer is lagging at midnight? Who the hell knows? So a broken system brings in thousands of new employees, now you need to define success to all of them at the same time, and figure out how fast you can get rid of those who can master leetcode but not deliverable production quality code