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1. Become enough of an expert/authority in your field that you're hired on the work you've done in the past. If you're a superstar that invented a game changing JavaScript framework or open source project used by millions, people aren't gonna throw you into a technical interview before hiring you.

That depends. There's the case of the person who wrote brew being asked technical questions to work at Apple.

In smaller fields, maybe. In FAANG I believe you would still go through the pipeline.

On (2) likewise for a FAANG