> Despite that, there's almost no way I would pass a technical interview at Google. You could get lucky and have each question have a similar relationship to p

> Despite that, there's almost no way I would pass a technical interview at Google. You could get lucky and have each question have a similar relationship to past knowledge. It's happened to me before, I blew through an Amazon interview once that way, but got knocked for technical leadership. So maybe you mean something like that, but that too is random. I had passed the leadership but failed the algorithms at Amazon a few years prior. > I really don't understand why we as an industry run interviews like they're game shows or try to manufacture workplace simulators with terrible model conformance. I believe these tests are more about compliance and baseline cognitive ability than anything else, which is good for the nature of the FAANG role. They are testing that you are willing to study what they tell you and that you are able to retain material of that level of difficultly and demonstrate that in an adversarial situation.