I suspect that this is going to change soon. As an industry we are now optimizing for the same set of functional interview questions across all companies while ignoring past engineer performance.
An interview is only one day with a candidate, and we’re well past the point where our functional questions are contrived to the point of selecting for interview training rather than job skills.
Consider that 8 years ago asking to reverse a singly linked list in o(1) memory and o(n) time was the difficulty bar for FB. These days you’d likely get asked to implement an optimal multidimensional DP + dfs/bfs/bsearch.
An interview is only one day with a candidate, and we’re well past the point where our functional questions are contrived to the point of selecting for interview training rather than job skills.
Consider that 8 years ago asking to reverse a singly linked list in o(1) memory and o(n) time was the difficulty bar for FB. These days you’d likely get asked to implement an optimal multidimensional DP + dfs/bfs/bsearch.