[pilgrimfff]

If you're passing FAANG interviews without prep, you're in a very small minority.

Maybe you're a genius. In any case, your experience is not particularly useful to the rest of us.

Failing behaviorals is also usually a result of poor preparation.

[puffoflogic]

This is very clever reasoning. "Of course I understand how these interviews work; of course I understand what it means to pass them. Hmm? No, I have a lot of trouble passing them. Oh, you don't? Well your experience is irrelevant."

What if — and hear me out on this one — the people passing these interviews consistently understand them better than you do? I know, it's a nigh incomprehensible concept, but if you really struggle with it for a while maybe it will make some sense.

[swores]

Surely the answer is found in data of how many people do and don't need to prep, not in you being as confident as the other side that you know best based on your personal experience?

But what do I know, I've never even looked at leetcode so maybe I'm missing some trick to extrapolate from anecdote to data accurately.