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The FAANG interview process is designed to allow people who are bad at interviewing to assess candidates in a way that's replicable. It's designed to be a flowchart that you can't screw up.

The point is to remove wiggle room. It's a domain-specific solution. Note e.g. DeepMind don't hire the same way.

Their number one problem is automating the beurocracy at scale with people who are fundamentally not that good at evaluating other candidates, or more likely don't care if they make a mistake. Everything else is downstream from that. Copying them without understanding their objectives is a mistake.



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