it doesn’t matter that you can solve them, you need to be able to solve them in under a minute while your interviewer is constantly distracting you. so basically, it has nothing to do with being able to build software.

I have been writing code for more than 25 years now and graduated top of my class in CS. I also have a degree from a US ivy league school on top of my CS degree from europe. I developed and launched 4 succesful products. I won awards for my work and I’m a semi celebrity in my niche.

I recently went through several FAANG loops and did not pass their retarded leetcode questions. each time i had the feeling it had to do with not being FAST enough or not producing the EXACT solution the interviewer wanted.

what is funny is that I got one interview where the guy asks me to solve a problem that gayle mcdowell (cracking the code interview) spent ONE HOUR solving in a video provided as “training material” to candidates, YET they wanted me to do it in a few minutes WHILE EXPLAINING what i was doing.

the above is why I no longer participate in coding interviews.

for all those who think people who pass these interviews are “better” engineers: this particular FAANG has shipped broken SaaS products for years, despite having the “smartest” engineers on the payroll.