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This could perhaps be construed arrogant, as though you're able to pick and choose who you interview for, but now that I've been through such an annoying amount of full interview chains until I was inevitably rejected, I think the opposite is true. The better place to spend your time, unless you're deliberately grinding data structures and algorithms problems, is on other companies' interviews who aren't just hiring arbitrary programming/salary/status ladder chasers (not there's necessarily anything wrong with that if you are one of the first two, or maybe the third).

So many companies try and do the FAANG thing now, that if they aren't going to compensate you accordingly for the same work, when really what they should be looking for is experience and general competency, then you might as well not interview with them. It's truly an unbelievable amount of time and energy involved in some of these, and there's so much variability in how you're evaluated, that it's probably not worth it.




A graph of "Interview Effort vs Total Compensation" should become an industry meme so that eventually HR are required to show on job ads where the advertised position lay on the graph.




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