[joelbluminator]

Everything he said is spot on. I suspect algorithm interviews are optimized for FAANGS - e.g if you can do the whiteboard and coderpad under pressure and interruptions you'd statistically do well in FAANG. I suppose that's true otherwise they wouldn't be doing it. But this hiring process is extremely broken for most everyone else; FAANGs don't really care about false negatives; they have so many great people wanting to work for them its ok for them not to hire some great people. But this whole process seems problematic to me for smaller companies who are in great need of good people and aren't drowning in great resumes. You can't really afford to miss 50% of great people if you're a startup, and this process will do just that; it will let you hire good people but also not hire good people on a really bad margin. Companies who are not FAANGs, especially startups, are better off coming up with some hiring process like the author described; it's not perfect but it will have less false negatives.