That might be true a small company but that's not my experience with FAANG interviews and all the companies with x-FAANG employees that just continue to do the

That might be true a small company but that's not my experience with FAANG interviews and all the companies with x-FAANG employees that just continue to do the same style of interview. I get asked what I consider, silly and unrelated stuff. I work on native APIs and was being hired for native API stuff yet my interviews including things like designing server farms for which I have next to zero knowledge. I've never set up more than a simple server. I did get hired by one of them and most of the questions I was asked have never once had any relationship to my job ever. There's also the leetcode stuff, many of which are of the variety "If you're seen this question before you'll know the answer, if not then it was a 1 in a million that one person solved it and then spread the answer but you're not going to solve it in this 45 minute session". 2 examples IMO are "find the smallest rectangle in a bitmap. The brute force answer is O(N^6). The fast answer is O(N) but I doubt anyone has solved the O(N) one on their own except an exceedingly rare few. The rest read the answer previously. Another is the code inserted into a matrix and having its columns rotated, given the result, recover the code question which can only be solved by knowing the one single algorithm that fits pretty much nothing else except this toy question. If you've been exposed to it before you solve it. If not, you don't Those questions didn't help them hire. I'm certainly productive without being able to answer them and so are several of my co-workers who admit to not being able to answer them. Most of us just feel like we got in by luck yet we're all super productive so it's not clear what the point of that interview style was. We were just the lucky few who got questions we knew the answers to already.