Another tech interview discussion :-). How many do we have these in a month? Seriously, if you want to get into FAANG type companies and want the kind of money/work they offer, there's just no choice left other than leetcode. And it's not going to change unless these FAANG companies change. So, until then let's just get over it and get back to leetcode :-).
Edit: I'm being downvoted. But I can't help speaking the raw truth here.
Unfortunately, other companies copy FAANG because FAANG are the most successful companies. We don't have to accept it. We just have to choose our battles. As I said, if you want the kind of money/work these companies offer, there's just no other choice these days.
Also because "four years at FAANG -> CTO or Development Lead (with a major hiring component) of a smallish funded startup" is a really common path, and those folks often bring along those interviewing processes. Startup founders & salespeople love to be able to say "so-and-so came to us from Google" when talking to e.g. potential investors or major sales prospects, but often can't really afford great managers or well-seasoned developers from those places, most of the time, so you see a lot of this "this is my fourth job ever, counting an internship, and I've never held a position higher than Team Lead in which I still mostly wrote code, and I've been in industry less than ten years total, but half of that was at FAANG and one time I presented at a minor conference and that's on Youtube, so now I'm CTO of [25-employee startup]"
I think those places are screwing up, since they usually can't match FAANG comp and anyone who is great at those kinds of interviews will just go to FAANG instead, but whatever.
