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It is somewhat easy to cheat through these N+1 interviews by grinding tons of practice problems before. At least that was my strategy. Sure I can implement DFS or a linked list, but I am a pretty suboptimal developer, especially when working with huuge codebases.

Maybe they should ask to implement a feature or fix a bug in some huge OSS project. That would evaluate skills relevant for a job in FAANG more closely imho.

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Everyone I've ever met who said this was a better engineer than they thought. They seemed to look at the very best engineers, see a difference between themself and that person, and think they weren't that good.

I think there is also some kind of survivorship bias - you don't hear from the people who tried it and failed.

    but I am a pretty suboptimal developer, especially when 
    working with huuge codebases.

I'm in the same boat when it comes to huge codebases. I see people being effective on them and I often simply do not know how they do it.

But it is for sure, a completely different skill from leetcode style stuff.

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