Tyler, I have two things to say about this. 1°) I think you don't get it: when you're Facebook, Google or any other company receiving and interviewing thousand

Tyler, I have two things to say about this. 1°) I think you don't get it: when you're Facebook, Google or any other company receiving and interviewing thousands of candidates for a job, you're having a different hiring strategy than a small startup. Their strategy is "hiring a bad programmer costs us more than rejecting a good one". So they tend to reject good programmers, but they mostly reject bad programmers. In the end: they only hire good programmers, and that's what matters. In contrast, startups are having the "it costs us more to reject a good programmer than to hire a bad one" strategy. So they hire more easily, most of the time, even if in the end they hire average/bad programmers, they don't care. 2°) I was interviewed for a front-end job at facebook, and I didn't get in. I think I'm not the best programmer around, but I'm okay, and I would do a great job at facebook. And just so you know : my first interview question was way way way harder than any of your questions. I think those puzzles are a good way to spot good programmers amongst thousands of good/average/bad programmers. I'll give you a really simple example: find the highest number in an array. You can find it using several different ways, but if you just go through the whole array, you might be a good programmer, but the next person I'd interview might be one too, and he will find it with a much lower complexity. I'd hire him. Simple as that. Bottom line — here's the question I was asked at facebook : you have a matrix of letters, and you have to find all the words you can do with it. For a front-end/product design job. And I'm not posting an article saying they suck at hiring.