[trebbble]

Consider that FAANG-style interviews are pretty expensive to conduct.

Consider that the big tech companies could agree on some kind of standardized test to replace much of the worst of the interviews—but haven't.

Consider that they often make you leetcode even if you've already passed their interviews before, even if you've passed a couple other leetcode-style companies' interviews before, and so on.

Recall that several of the top-paying tech companies got busted illegally colluding to keep salaries down once already.

Conclusion: making developers more reluctant to switch jobs is one of the main purposes of FAANG-type interview processes, and is likely a core part of their current salary-suppression scheme.

[AnimalMuppet]

Interesting. I'd quibble with the degree of certainty in the last paragraph, but this is an interesting take with some concrete observations behind it.