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> that focuses solely on predefined technical questions

Unless you have recruiters (or even engineers) ignoring your answer because it doesn't match exactly to what you were expecting.

And it's not impervious to yes men, you can have a technical savant and a yes man at the same time.

I usually just blaze through the technical questions, FizzBuzz takes 1-2 minutes, 2-SUM maybe 5 minutes. Rarely do they have more than 15 minutes of technical questions unless you have problems with how fast you can write on a board. I've also asked to skip an easy question so that I would have more time for the audition phase.

So: if you are both skilled at tech AND at working with people, and you're shooting for a tech job with an experienced interviewer... BE MORE AWKWARD!