Haha. At some companies, they made the interviews tougher for internal candidates... Amazon used to require full loop, but last time I changed jobs there (I no longer wok there), all it took was conversations with some senior engineers, and somebody reviewing my work sample.

And totally agree with the absurdity of the questions we ask in tech interviews. At least for my current employer, we use simplified versions of real problems we faced in the past, and place more emphasis on how they communicate, rather than just throwing some leetcode medium/hard problems, and let candidates self select based on how much prep work they put in.