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I have zero confidence in the ability of interviewers to reliably and repeatable parse out subtle characterological details in candidates. Like I said, the interviews you're talking about are essentially random functions.

Google has notoriously one of the worst hiring processes in the entire tech industry.

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Many people's understanding of "Google's hiring processes" is from a few articles over a decade ago. They had done numerous studies, switched things up, and now have a pretty solid approach to interviewing. This is one of the articles that was going around back then, and most of the conclusions are how Google still interviews: https://www.workforce.com/news/laszlo-bock-just-google-him

I work with many ex-Googlers that did a lot of interviewing and they process has been pretty consistent for many years now, and seen largely successful.

> Like I said, the interviews you're talking about are essentially random functions.

Only if you are REALLY bad at interviewing !

And what's the alternative - you want to hire someone to head up your infrastructure modernization based on acing LeetCode challenges and drawing a few diagrams on the whiteboard ?

Google invests huge amounts of money and time into their process and I am repeating a conclusion they arrived at about their own process.

What companies hire differently than them? Everyone seems to do the exact same thing.

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