[Zimahl]

Yup. If a developer wants to have a FAANG company on their resume they're obviously going to have to jump through some hoops and do what's necessary. Non-FAANG companies are going to have to take what they can get and hope it works out because they aren't worth a long drawn-out hiring process.

[shantly]

Yeah, I can get a bunch of phone screens for opportunities with nearly no effort. If comp's high across the board and I have, say, three or four promising calls within 36hrs of flying my "I'm looking" flag, and one says "we'd like you to come in for a whole day for a half-dozen one-hour interviews" or "we'll give you a 4-hour coding challenge" and the others don't, guess which one's not getting a second conversation? And they know that, so most places aren't pulling that crap. Economy turns around, who knows, probably swing back the other way, but right now? No.