>I have not been tested on the fundamentals of programming taking interviews from FAAGM and other famous tech companies
I've interviewed at three of those letters, but as a senior manager, and I (somewhat ironically) better covered my nearly 20 years of writing code (as an IC, to use the parlance of the industry) than the interviews given to coders.
I could certainly solve hard coding problems when needed, but later in my career I was doing mostly system design, which is figuring out how to put all the bits together in a way that could be built modularly and operated efficiently. Another question from one of those focused on how to handle an actual problem that came up regarding migrating log analyzers when a simple cutover wasn't possible. In general, I love those kinds of questions because my experienced and knowledge come in to play.
It boggles my mind when senior ICs get dinged because they're not able to traverse a tree in the way someone wanted in 30 minutes while coding in a plain text editor on a video chat. IMHO, 5 minutes to install the correct package and write a couple tests should be sufficient so we can get the REAL discussion which is to talk about whether a tree is the right structure and what we should do about it if it's not. ;)
I've interviewed at three of those letters, but as a senior manager, and I (somewhat ironically) better covered my nearly 20 years of writing code (as an IC, to use the parlance of the industry) than the interviews given to coders.
I could certainly solve hard coding problems when needed, but later in my career I was doing mostly system design, which is figuring out how to put all the bits together in a way that could be built modularly and operated efficiently. Another question from one of those focused on how to handle an actual problem that came up regarding migrating log analyzers when a simple cutover wasn't possible. In general, I love those kinds of questions because my experienced and knowledge come in to play.
It boggles my mind when senior ICs get dinged because they're not able to traverse a tree in the way someone wanted in 30 minutes while coding in a plain text editor on a video chat. IMHO, 5 minutes to install the correct package and write a couple tests should be sufficient so we can get the REAL discussion which is to talk about whether a tree is the right structure and what we should do about it if it's not. ;)