[VirusNewbie]

I think that's a great reason to throw out the hard and harder medium questions.

I've never ever even heard of an interview problem where a b-tree or RB tree was required to solve it.

But my point stands that there are a ton of great little questions that involve very very basic data structures and tree traversal algorithms that you can use to glean quite a lot about a candidate.

You're absolutely right that asking a candidate if they can solve a 2D DP problem isn't telling you anything other than if they'd either seen this problem or they are good at this algorithm. I'm stating that you can learn a lot and eliminate some bad folks by asking some basic coding LC questions.

[Fattestmoron]

If you're talking FAANG you're talking hard level. If you're talking a company that fancies itself FAANG, you're talking medium-hard while being treated like a human septic tank, which could happen at FAANG as well.

I think most candidates could give a solution, just not while they are being treated like sardines and prodded with a stick.

It has made me ask myself: do I really want a job at FAANG, or any high level company? I mean if it's pumping out leetcode while simultaneously dealing with office politics and sadistic managers, I think I'll just go back to selling cocaine.