[gameguy43]

This is the first time I've heard this characterization of Interview Cake as making the Google-style whiteboard coding interview accessible to small(er) companies.

It /might/ be /somewhat/ true. But I'm skeptical.

Anecdotally, when I started Interview Cake 6 years ago it was already true that most small companies my friends and I interviewed with were using these sorts of data structures and algorithms questions. The handful of exceptions were mostly companies that were outside the "scene" (usually because they weren't in SF or NY).

[hello_moto]

I live in a hi-tech city outside SF/NYC and I can confirm that many companies in my area filter candidates using questions straight from leetcode.

This was not the case 5-6 years ago.